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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.19.6.B
People
Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
Title
Man Bearing an Urn (The Roman Album)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
1775-1780
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293312

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash over traces of black crayon on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper with folio 6a
Dimensions
actual: 21.2 x 15 cm (8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed by David in black ink, lower right: au palais / farnèse; paraphs of Eugène and Jules David (L. 839; L. 1437) in brown ink at lower left and right

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.19.6.B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Simonetta Ceccarelli, ed., Villa Lontana: Una dimora nobilitata da Poniatowski, Canova e Thorvaldsen, Umberto Allemandi & C. (Turin, 2013), p. 72 repr. as fig. 18

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