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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.611
People
Henri Bellange, French (Nancy 1613 - 1680 Paris)
Previously attributed to Jacques Bellange, French (active 1595 - 1616 in Nancy)
Title
Diana
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294744

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite with gold paint and white gouache over red chalk on parchment, framing lines in gold paint and graphite, laid down on off-white card, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
29 x 20 cm (11 7/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, gold paint over black ink: bellange f.
  • inscription: signed, lower right, gold paint over black ink: bellange. f.
  • collector's mark: mount, lower left and right, black ink: Germain Seligman (L.3863) [twice]
  • (not assigned): watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, mount, lower left and right); Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums, 1984, inv. no. 1984.611

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
1984.611
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • François-Georges Pariset, "De Bellange à Deruet", Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français, Colin (Paris, 1966), pp. 61-73
  • 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. 2, n.p. (as Thierry Bellange)
  • Sue Welsh Reed, "Henri Bellange Drawings at Harvard", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, Summer 2000), vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 155-58, pp. 156-57, 158-n.10 (as Henri Bellange)
  • Jacques Thuillier, Jacques Bellange, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (Rennes, 2001), p. 333
  • 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. 6, repr.

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