2000.78: Medal Design: HUMANITAS
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2000.78
- People
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Studio of Edme Bouchardon, French (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698 - 1762 Paris)
- Title
- Medal Design: HUMANITAS
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1758
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294184
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Red chalk and graphite, guidelines in red chalk and graphite, on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
- Dimensions
- diameter: 21.8 cm (8 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: None visible–drawing laid down
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Robert Carfrae, Scotland; his sale, London, Glendining & Co., 28 November 1990, lot 320 (1), sold; to Cyril Humphris, London; his sale, New York, Sotheby's, 10 January 1995, lot 64, sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario (2), sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2000, inv. no. 2000.78
Notes
(1) The drawing was acquired by Robert Carfrae (1820-1900) in the 19th century, and was consigned to auction ninety years after his death.
(2) The drawing was on long-term loan to the Harvard University Art Museums from 1995 until its sale in 2000.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Hope and Julian Edison
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- 2000.78
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- A female figure seated, receives another who stands before her; a building, perhaps a church, is in the background.
Publication History
- Daniel Fearon, "An Album of Drawings: Jeton and Medal Designs by Edme Bouchardon and Other Hands", The Medal (1991), no. 19, Autumn, cat. no. 22, p. 35, repr.
- 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), p. 18
Verification Level
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