1993.163: Saint Gregory the Great Called to the Papacy

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1993.163

People

Gabriel-François Doyen, French (Paris 1726 - 1806 St. Petersburg)

Title

Saint Gregory the Great Called to the Papacy

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294152

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Two tones of red chalk heightened with white chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in red chalk

Dimensions

53.2 × 40.5 cm (20 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower left, black chalk: doyen
• watermark: PRICX
• inscription: signed, lower left, black chalk: doyen
• inscription: lower right, graphite: [illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sale, Drouot (Ader-Tajan), Paris, 27 June 1992, lot 315; W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund, inv. no. 1993.163

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund

Accession Year

1993

Object Number

1993.163

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 83, repr.

Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000

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