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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.49
People
Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine, French (Rouen 1751 - 1824 Paris)
Title
The Boudoir
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295243

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
45.1 x 36.8 cm (17 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lower right, black chalk: Lemoine de Rouen [effaced]
  • watermark: indecipherable
  • inscription: signed, lower right, black chalk: Lemoine de Rouen [effaced]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edmond de Goncourt, Paris (by 1881; without his mark, L.1089); sale, Drouot, Paris, 15-17 February 1897, lot 163; Georges Sortais, Paris; Albert Meyer, Paris; sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 15 June 1938, lot 20; Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903, inv. no. 1978.49

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.49
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edmond de Goncourt, La maison d’un artiste, Galerie Charpentier (Paris, 1881), vol. 1, p. 106
  • Gaston Le Breton, “Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine, peintre rouennais (1751-1824)", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1914), ser. 4, vol. 12, July, pp. 25-39, p. 36-n.2
  • Claire Batigne, Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 1932), cat. no. 801, p. 151
  • Seymour de Ricci, Dessins du dix-huitème siècle: collection Albert Meyer (Paris, 1935), cat. no. 46, n.p.
  • Élisabeth Launay, Les frères Goncourt: collectionneurs de dessins (Paris, 1991), cat. no. 171, pp. 356-57 (as location unknown)
  • Neil Jeffares, A Catalogue of the Works of Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine, Rouen 1751-Paris 1824, Neil Jeffares (London, 1993), cat. no. 74, pp. 66-67
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), pp. 324, 536-n.3
  • 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. 106a, repr., p. 17

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1932 - 03/05/1932

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