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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.599
People
Simon Vouet, French (Paris 1590 - 1649 Paris)
Title
Kneeling Man with Raised Arms
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Study of a Man Kneeling
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1635
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294510

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on light-tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, bottom left corner and right edge made-up, laid down on a remnant of a Mariette mount
Dimensions
29.7 x 21.7 cm (11 11/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Laid down; none visible
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 108.1978

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (his mark, L.1854, lower right, black ink); his sale, Basan, Paris, 15 November 1775-30 January 1776, part of lot 1385 or 1386; possibly Alexandre-Joseph Paillet or Philippe-Laurent de Joubert or Jean-Marie de Lastic de Saint-Jal, Abbé de Lastic; sale, Drouot (Charpentier et de Ribes), Paris, 1 April 1967, lot 43; Henri Baderou, Paris and Rouen; Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, mount, lower right and left); E. V. Thaw & Co., New York; Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.599

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year
1984
Object Number
1984.599
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jacques Seligmann, Master Drawings, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1967), cat. no. 38, n.p.
  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 150, pp. 21, 224
  • John Richardson, ed., The Collection of Germain Seligman: Paintings, Drawings and Works of Art, E. V. Thaw & Co., Artemis S.A., and David Carritt Ltd. (New York, Luxembourg, and London, 1979), cat. no. 86, n.p.
  • Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Dessins de Simon Vouet, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1987), p. 49
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Laure Barthélemy-Labeeuw, Les dessins de la collection Mariette: école française, Electa (Milan, 2011), vol. 2, cat. no. F 2936, p. 1114
  • Diederik Bakhuÿs, Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, and Elodie Vaysse, L'œil & la main: chefs-d'œuvre du dessin français des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Rouen, 2019), p. 28
  • 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. 11, repr., p. 80

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings, Jacques Seligmann & Co., 11/04/1967 - 11/25/1967

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