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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.586
People
Circle of Laurent de La Hyre, French (Paris 1606 - 1656 Paris)
Title
Rhetoric
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Allegory of Rhetoric
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1650
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295027

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, extensively stumped, on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
23.3 x 27 cm (9 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: within image, black chalk: ORNATVS . PERVASIO
  • inscription: verso: top right, brown ink: De la Hyre
  • inscription: verso: top right, red chalk: 1438
  • collector's mark: lower left: JD [encircled] (L. 1440)
  • collector's mark: lower left: GS [entwined] (L. 3863)

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
1984.586
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), cat. no. 45, 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), cat. no. 87, pp. 174-75, repr
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "Review: Laurent La Hyre, 1606-1656: l'homme et l'oeuvre", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (1993), vol. 31, no. 2, Summer, pp. 179-84, p. 180
  • 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), p. 27
  • Remastered: Old Masters from the Collection of J.E. Safra, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, January 29, 2023), under lot 47

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
  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/15/2015 - 11/13/2015

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