1980.19: David Playing his Harp before Saul; verso: Composition Studies

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1980.19

People

Christian Gottlieb Schick, German (1776 - 1812)

Title

David Playing his Harp before Saul; verso: Composition Studies

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th-19th century

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295293

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink over graphite on cream laid paper; verso: graphite

Dimensions

actual: 35.3 x 49.1 cm (13 7/8 x 19 5/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and the Discretionary Fund

Accession Year

1980

Object Number

1980.19

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 37
• Jeffrey Fontana, Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Necoclassical Drawing, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist no. 37

Exhibition History

• 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
• Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998
• Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/07/1999 - 10/31/1999

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