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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.607
People
Raymond Lafage, French (Lisle-sur-Tarn 1656 - 1684 Lyon)
Title
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1679
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294512

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down cream antique laid paper, laid down on an off-white wove card
Dimensions
46.5 x 31.5 cm (18 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, brown ink: R. Lafage / in f
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: signed, lower left, brown ink: R. Lafage / in f
  • inscription: lower right, black ink: 37

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Germain Seligman, Paris and New York (his mark, L.3863, lower left and right); Lucien Goldschmidt, New York, sold; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund, inv. no. 1984.607

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
1984.607
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 32-33
  • 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. 43, repr.

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