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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.30
People
Antoine Coypel, French (Paris 1661 - 1722 Paris)
Title
Perseus and Andromeda
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1695
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295019

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on gray antique laid paper
Dimensions
17.3 x 16.2 cm (6 13/16 x 6 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Louis-Antoine Prat, Paris. His mark at lower right (not in Lugt) .
Private Collector.
Michel Gierzod, Paris, acquired from private collection, sold to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1996.
Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, Mass.. on long-term loan to HUAM, 1996

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.30
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Nicole Garnier, Antoine Coypel (1661-1722), Arthena (Paris, France, 1989), p. 236, no. 581, fig. 505
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 129, repr. p. 126 as fig. 1

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