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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1963.146.2.C
People
Merry-Joseph Blondel, French (Paris 1781 - 1853 Paris)
Title
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia as Livia Listens
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
c. 1814
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294400

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and brown wash on cream wove paper.
Dimensions
actual: 17.8 x 33.2 cm (7 x 13 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at lower right: Blondel

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Achille Leclère. Achille Lecère and heirs
Mme Fassier.
Claude Darton, Avignon.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Claude Darton through John Goelet
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
1963.146.2.C
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 26, repr.

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