1954.111: Young Boy Asleep
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1954.111
- People
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Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, French (Paris 1735 - 1784 Paris)
- Title
- Young Boy Asleep
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Le Repos
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294158
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Red, black, and white chalk, stumping, on light-tan antique laid paper, laid down on Japan paper, framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 27.2 × 24.3 cm (10 11/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: signed, lower right, brown ink: Lépicié
- watermark: indecipherable
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Charles E. Dunlap, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954, inv. no. 1954.111
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
- Accession Year
- 1954
- Object Number
- 1954.111
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Florence Ingersoll-Smouse, "Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié", La Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, Imprimerie Georges Petit (1923), vol. 43, February, pp. 17-136, possibly p. 170
- 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), possibly cat. no. 420, p. 120
- Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 79, n.p.
- Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2005), cat. no. 19, pp. 8, 12
- 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. 552-n.8
- 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. 85, repr.
Exhibition History
- European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
- "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006
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