Standing Male Nude Holding a Staff | Harvard Art Museums

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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

Verification Level

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