1979.74: View of Mola di Gaeta

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.74

People

François Le Moyne, French (Paris, France 1688 - 1737 Paris, France)

Title

View of Mola di Gaeta

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1724

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295681

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount

Dimensions

22.4 × 36.5 cm (8 13/16 × 14 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: black chalk, lower left: La ville de Gayette / F LeMoyne f.
• inscription: lower left, brown ink: 612 [illegible]
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: Vue du la Ville de Gagette en Italie / Moine, [illegible] Franz la geb. 1688 +1737. / [illegible] / 1 [encircled]
• watermark:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (his mark, L.1391, lower left); Colnaghi, London (by 1964); Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer, inv. no. 1979.74

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.74

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Benedict Nicolson, "Notes on Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 1964), vol. 106, no. 746, July, pp. 239-41, 342, 349-51, pp. 350-51
• Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, exh. cat., P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. (London, 1964), cat. no. 19, n.p.
• Jean-Luc Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and His Generation 1688-1737, Arthena (Paris, 1984), D.61, pp. 153-54
• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 28, pp. 38-39, 105
• Jean-Francois Méjanès, Dessins français du XVIIIe siècle de Watteau à Lemoyne, exh. cat., ed. Roseline Bacou, Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1987), p. 96
• Margaret Morgan Grasselli, "Landscape Drawings by François Le Moyne, Some Old, Some New", Master Drawings Association (New York, 1996), vol. 34, no. 4, Winter, pp. 365-74, 367, 369-71, 373-n.5-n.10
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), 182, 367-n.5
• Aldo Treglia, Mola e Castellone di Gaeta, oggi Formia: immagini inedite in biblioteche e musei italiani ed esteri, Comune di Formia (Formia, 2014), pp. 22-23
• 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. 57, repr., p. 17

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., 06/16/1964 - 07/17/1964
• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984

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