Harvard Art Museums > 1984.584: Christ and the Woman of Canaan Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Christ and the Woman of Canaan (Jean-Baptiste Corneille) , 1984.584,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 29, 2023, https://hvrd.art/o/295048. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1984.584 People Jean-Baptiste Corneille, French (Paris? 1649 - 1695 Paris) Title Christ and the Woman of Canaan Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 17th century Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/295048 Physical Descriptions Medium Brown ink, brown wash, and black chalk, squared in black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper, partially incised Dimensions 43.2 × 31.5 cm (17 × 12 3/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks watermark: none inscription: signed, lower left, brown ink: JBCorneille inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: John VIII, 3-11 / 88.1978 P.109-20X inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: 845 [struckthrough] / No439 ["o" in superscript] inscription: verso, center, graphite: Lugt 2987 inscription: verso, center, graphite: P inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: [illegible] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Baron Johann Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam and Velzen (his mark, L.2987, verso); to his son, Johan Goll II van Franckenstein, Amsterdam and Velzen, by descent; Pieter Hendrik Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam, by descent; possibly his sale, De Vries, Amsterdam, 1 July and following days 1833; L. X. Lannoy, Amsterdam; his sale, De Vries, Amsterdam, 1-2 December 1893, lot 65 (as "Christ and the Adulterous Woman"); Alister Mathews, Branksome Park, Dorset (by 1964); Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, verso, L.3863, verso, lower left and right); Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara (by 1978); Artemis, London; Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund, inv. no. 1984.584 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 1984.584 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 28, pp. 51, 146-47 Per Bjurström, French Drawings: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, 1976), n.p. 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. 14, n.p. Pierre Rosenberg, Maîtres français, 1550-1800: dessins de la donation Mathias Polakovits à l’École des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., ed. Natalie Coural, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1989), p. 138 Philippe Malgouyres, Peintures françaises du xviie siècles: la collection du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen,, Somogy and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Paris and Rouen, 2000), p. 36 Heinz Widauer, Die Französischen Zeichnungen der Albertina vom Barock bis zum Beginnenden Rokoko, ed. Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Wien Böhlau (Vienna, 2004), p. 151 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. 41, repr. Exhibition History French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 09/02/1972 - 10/15/1972; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973 Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
