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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.1
People
Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune, French (Paris 1715 - 1790 Paris)
Title
Saint Peter Preaching to the Jews
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1782
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294624

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk counterproof reworked with brown chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream wove paper
Technique
Counterproof
Dimensions
11.2 x 21.4 cm (4 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: signed and dated, lower left, red chalk: C.N. Cochin f. delin. 1782

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean Guyot de Villeneuve, Paris; his sale, Paris, 28 May 1900, sold; to Galerie Cailleux, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1984, inv. no. D-F-61, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999, inv. no. 1999.1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.1
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. A.81, p. 414
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), p. 511-n.5

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