1978.36: Priest Making an Offering Accompanied by Nymphs and Satyrs

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1978.36

People

Jacques-Philippe Caresme, French (Paris 1734 - 1796 Paris)

Title

Priest Making an Offering Accompanied by Nymphs and Satyrs

Other Titles

Former Title: Nymphs and Satyrs with Offering

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295266

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, watercolor, and white gouache over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink

Dimensions

19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

G. Mühlbacher, Paris; Joseph Bardac, Paris; M. Higgins, Paris; Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978, inv. no. 1978.36

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

1978.36

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Lucy M. MacClintock and Barbara Matilsky, Summary of an Exhibition of the Mrs. Herbert N. Straus Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1978), cat. no. 38, n.p.

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of the Mrs. Herbert N. Straus Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/13/1978 - 06/17/1978

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