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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.19.10.A
People
Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
Title
Large Urn on a Sculpted Base (The Roman Album)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
1775-1780
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293521

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash over black crayon on cream laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 19.6 x 13.7 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed by David in black ink, beneath vase:, a la ville albana; paraphs of Eugène and Jules David (L. 839; L. 1437) in brown ink at lower left; inscribed on mount in brown ink at right angle to lower edge: 213

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.19.10.A
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), pp. 294, 531-n.12

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