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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.61
People
Rodolphe Bresdin, French (La Fresne, France 1822 - 1885 Sèvres, France)
Title
Hunters Surprised by Death
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1857
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295762

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink with touches of graphite over traces of red chalk, traced with a stylus, on tan tracing paper, mounted on cream wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 13 x 7.5 cm (5 1/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., black ink: rodolphe Bresdin / 1857

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.61

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.61
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 33, pp. 42-43; repr. p. 111

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