1999.24: Christ Revealing the Prophets of the Old Testament to the Virgin

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.24

People

François Boitard, French (c. 1670 - c. 1715 The Hague)

Title

Christ Revealing the Prophets of the Old Testament to the Virgin

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1692

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/293323

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gray wash on vellum

Dimensions

22.5 x 29.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower left, black ink: François Boitard Invent Fecit 1692
• watermark: none
• inscription: signed and dated, lower left, black ink: François Boitard Invent Fecit 1692

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Hugo Schwart, Maidenhead, England, by descent; Thomas Williams Fine Art, Ltd., London, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-362, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, inv. no. 1999.24

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.24

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), cat. no. A.25, p. 410

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