Harvard Art Museums > 1999.23: Head of Saint Germain Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Head of Saint Germain (Joseph-Marie Vien, the Elder) , 1999.23,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/293546. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.23 People Joseph-Marie Vien, the Elder, French (Montpellier 1716 - 1809 Paris) Title Head of Saint Germain Other Titles Former Title: Head of a Bishop Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1755 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/293546 Physical Descriptions Medium Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on brown card Dimensions Sheet: 32.9 × 31.4 cm (12 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Private Collection, France; Michel Gierzod, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (1996); Harvard Art Museum/ Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1999.23 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.23 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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), under cat. no. 74, p. 260, repr. fig. 3, cat. no. A351 Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017) 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), p. 509-n.5 Exhibition History 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/11/2015 Subjects and Contexts Google Art Project Related Works 2006.248 Louis-Marin Bonnet Head of Saint Germain Prints Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
