1999.23: Head of Saint Germain
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.23
- People
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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
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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), 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
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Verification Level
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