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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.31
People
Jean Baptiste Pillement, French (Lyon 1728 - 1808 Lyon)
Title
Fantasy Landscape with Chinese Figures
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Scène Chinoise
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295633

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, stumped, with touches of white chalk on cream antique laid paper toned to light tan, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
25 x 34 cm (9 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, black chalk: Pillement.
  • inscription: signed, lower left, black chalk: Pillement.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978, inv. no. 1978.31

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
1978.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA171x Exoticism and Orientalism, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2009 - 05/03/2009

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