1984.596: The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1984.596

People

Jacques Stella, French (Lyon 1596 - 1657 Paris)

Title

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294752

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink, gray wash, and white gouache, over traces of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on heavy tan antique laid paper

Dimensions

image: 27.8 x 32 cm (10 15/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
sheet: 28.7 x 33 cm (11 5/16 x 13 in.)

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

1984.596

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 77, 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. 73 pp. 148-149, repr. p. 148

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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