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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.605
People
Laurent de La Hyre, French (Paris 1606 - 1656 Paris)
Title
Annunciation
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294583

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and brown wash with black and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on off-white antique laid paper and off-white card
Dimensions
25.4 x 22.2 cm (10 x 8 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: GS [intertwined] [Lugt 3863, mark of Germain Seligman]
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink: PC [intertwined] [Lugt 2073, mark of Marquis Philippe de Chennevières]
  • inscription: verso, top, graphite: No 18
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: de la Hÿre.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: No 4 (?)/ de le Hyre

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marquis Philippe de Chennevières (Lugt 2073), Paris and Bellesme. Germain Seligman (Lugt 3863), Paris and New York. [R. M. Light & Co.].

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
1984.605
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 41, repr.
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), no. 83 pp. 167-168, repr. p. 167
  • Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. 667, pp. 392, 761, repr.
  • 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. 27, fig. 2

Exhibition History

  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990

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