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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.21
People
Charles-Antoine Coypel, French (Paris 1694 - 1752 Paris)
Title
Standing Male Nude Holding a Staff
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Male Nude (study for Hercules in "Hercules Returns Alcestis from Hades to Her Husband Admetus")
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1750
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293542

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk with touches of red chalk and traces of white chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, decorated with dark blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
Dimensions
43.5 × 26 cm (17 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none visible--laid down
  • inscription: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist’s estate; Coypel family, by descent; Galerie de Bayser, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (inv. no. D-F-445), gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1999.21

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.21
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 90, pp. 197, 368, 414
  • 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), pp. 38-39, 42
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 238-239, repr. p. 238 as fig. 3
  • 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. 60, repr.

Exhibition History

  • HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011

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