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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.7
People
Jean-Antoine Constantin, French (La Loutbière 1756 - 1844 Aix-en-Provence)
Title
Saint John the Baptist Preaching in a Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294587

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
46.7 x 35.7 cm (18 3/8 x 14 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: laid down: none visible through mount

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Annamaria Edelstein, London, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1985, inv. no. D-F-66, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999, inv. no. 1999.7

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.7
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), cat. no. A.83, p. 414

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