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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.183
People
Robert Nanteuil, French (Reims 1623 - 1678 Paris)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of a Man (Charles Perrault?)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293346

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored chalks with touches of pastel on tan antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper, laid down on gray wove paper
Dimensions
oval: 27.6 x 22.8 cm (10 7/8 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso: 320 x 160 (crossed out)
  • inscription: mount: Robert Nanteuil del (avril? aout?) 1678

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Herbert N. Straus, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957, inv. no. 1957.183

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Straus
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.183
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 207
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 63, n.p., pl. 63, repr.
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), cat. no. 105, pp. 204-205, repr.
  • Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Unicorn Press (London, 2006), p. 387
  • Thea Burns, The Invention of Pastel Painting, Archetype Publications (London, 2007), pp. 48, 167, fig. 25 (color)
  • Audrey Adamczak, Robert Nanteuil ca. 1623-1678, Arthena (Paris, 2011), cat. no. R. 45, pp. 59 n. 322, 84, 279, repr. (as Unidentified Artist)

Exhibition History

  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990

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