1984.593: Christ

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1984.593

People

Eustache Le Sueur, French (Paris 1616 - 1655 Paris)

Title

Christ

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Christ Walking Forward

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1646

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295053

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite, laid down on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream card, extended at top and bottom

Dimensions

33.5 x 18 cm (13 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
with extensions: 31.3 x 18 cm (12 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 97.1978
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Chevalier Louis-Jean-François Collet, Paris and Parma; possibly his sale, Paris, Lebrun, 14-23 May 1787, lot 128; possibly Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, Paris; possibly his sale, Paris, Lebrun, 11-30 April 1791, part of lot 318; Jean Gigoux, Paris (without his mark, L. 1164); Henri Baderou, Rouen; Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, lower right); R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara (by 1978); Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.593

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

1984.593

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Pierre Rosenberg, "Dessins français du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècles dans les collections américaines", L'Oeil (Paris, 1972), no. 212-13, p. 11
• 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. 86, pp. 179-80
• Per Bjurström, French Drawings: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, 1976), under cat. no. 532, 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. 54, n.p.
• Alain Mérot, Eustache Le Sueur, Arthena (Paris, 1987), cat. no. D.184, pp. 222-23
• 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. 95, pp. 188-90
• Alain Mérot, Eustache Le Sueur, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (paris, 2000), p. 106
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2013), pp. 282, 646
• 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. 18, repr., p. 80

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
• 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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