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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.37
People
Jacques-Philippe Caresme, French (Paris 1734 - 1796 Paris)
Title
Nymphs and Satyrs Before a Herm
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Nymphs and Satyrs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1781
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295267

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and watercolor over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
17.4 x 24.5 cm (6 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: signed and dated, on altar, lower center: ph Caresme / 1781
  • inscription: signed and dated, on altar, lower center: ph Caresme / 1781
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 36

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. 1978.37

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
1978.37
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. 37, n.p.

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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