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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.253
People
François Le Moyne, French (Paris, France 1688 - 1737 Paris, France)
Title
Latona and the Peasants of Lycia
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1721
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294013

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on heavy off-white laid paper
Dimensions
22.6 × 37.1 cm (8 7/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: graphite, bottom center: F. Lemoine f; verso, brown ink: Francois Lemoine né a Paris en 1688 mort en 1737 Elève de Louis Galloche / et maitre de Fr. Boucher / Collection Lempereur; graphite, bottom center: 89; lower right: Fr. Lemoine 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
L. D. Lempereur, Paris (L. 1740). Lempereur's dates: 1701-1740
Silvestre(?), sold in Paris, 1811. Sale, February 28, 1811, no. 381 (possibly the drawing referred to by Bordeaux, 1984, under no. 30, as in this sale).
Charles Gasc, Paris (L. 543). Charles Gasc, ca. 1850, Paris
David & Constance Yates, New York.
Sotheby's, New York, consigned by David and Constance Yates, sold to Vermeer Associates Limited, 1993. no. 92, repr.
Vermeer Associates Limited, purchased from Sotheby's, New York, 1993, sold to HUAM, 1993. on long-term loan to HUAM since 1993

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Isabella Grandin Bequest Fund
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.253
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jean-Luc Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and His Generation 1688-1737, Arthena (Paris, 1984), under no. 30 (?)

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