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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.587
People
Charles Le Brun, French (Paris 1619 - 1690 Paris)
Title
King Louis XIV Receiving Ambassadors from the Court of Spain
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Louis XIV Receiving the Spanish Ambassador
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1674
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294750

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on off-white antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
Dimensions
irregular: 13.1 x 26.3 cm (5 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None visible–drawing is laid down

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
1984.587
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), no. 49, 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), pp. 28, 30

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/10/2017 - 09/14/2017

Verification Level

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