Standing Male Nude Holding a Bow | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1999.3
People: Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, French (Paris 1735 - 1784 Paris)
Title: Standing Male Nude Holding a Bow
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/294010

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown chalk on cream laid paper

Dimensions

55.6 x 30.4 cm (21 7/8 x 11 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: Grapes (similar to Gaudriault 974)
inscription: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, sold [through his posthmous sale, Paris, February 10, 1785]. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Paris, by descent; to Girodet Family, 1824 until 1981. [Galerie Emmanuel Moatti, Paris]. Annamaria Edelstein, London, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1986, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year: 1999
Object Number: 1999.3
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Philippe Gaston-Dreyfus, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint et dessiné de Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735-1784), Société de l'histoire de l'Art Français / A. Colin (Paris, 1923), p. 143
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. A.217, p. 423

Exhibition History

Body Image in French Art and Visual Culture (18th and 19th Centuries), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016

Verification Level

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