- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1993.126
- People
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Rodolphe Bresdin, French (La Fresne, France 1822 - 1885 Sèvres, France)
- Title
- Study for "The Holy Family near a Bridge"
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294495
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Graphite on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 8.2 x 10 cm (3 1/4 x 3 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso: l.c. of mount, graphite, inscribed: Bruikleen 65
- inscription: mat, right of sheet, graphite, inscribed: 65
- Provenance
- Rodolphe Bresdin. estate stamp (not in Lugt)
Paul Bresdin. artist's son
D. G. Santee Landweer, Amsterdam, 1930.
D. Loenen, Amsterdam.
Adolph Schwarz, Amsterdam-Amstelveen.
Robert M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara, CA.
Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, purchased from R.M. Light & Co., 1991, sold to HUAM, 1993. Long term loan to HUAM from June 1991 to 1993
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
- 1993.126
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Upper corners rounded. There are single graphite lines framing the drawing on the mount. Study for the etching The Holy Family Near a Bridge, Van Gelder 47. According to Van Gelder, the drawing was cut to its present shape by the artist's daughter, Rodolphine.
- Publication History
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Dirk van Gelder, Rodolphe Bresdin, Martinus Nijhoff (La Haye, 1976), vol. 1, p. 50, fig. 38; vol. 2, p. 19
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