2018.379: Adoration of the Shepherds

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2018.379

People

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French (Aix-en-Provence 1700 - 1783 Paris)

Title

Adoration of the Shepherds

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/293354

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, mounted

Dimensions

40.5 × 29.4 cm (15 15/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Jean-Christophe Baudequin at Galerie Ratton et Ladrière, Paris]. Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, by 1995

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey Horvitz in honor of Alvin L. Clark, Jr.

Accession Year

2018

Object Number

2018.379

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. 54, pp. 214-15, repr.
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Esther Bell, and Françoise Joulie, Genius & Grace: François Boucher and the Generation of 1700, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (Boston, 2014), cat. no. 33, pp. 20, 133, repr. p. 77, plate 33
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 64, repr.

Exhibition History

• Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/05/1998 - 01/31/1999; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 02/20/1999 - 04/18/1999; Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 05/01/1999 - 06/25/1999; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 07/09/1999 - 09/05/1999; National Academy of Design, New York, 10/08/1999 - 12/12/1999; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 02/24/2000 - 04/24/2000
• Genius & Grace: François Boucher and the Generation of 1700, Cincinnati Art Museum, 02/14/2014 - 05/11/2014; Ackland Art Museum, 01/23/2015 - 04/05/2015

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