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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.50
People
Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine, French (Rouen 1751 - 1824 Paris)
Title
The Gallery
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295812

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and charcoal, extensively stumped, with touches of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
43.9 × 37.6 cm (17 5/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Edmond de Goncourt, Paris (without his mark, L.1089); Albert Meyer, Paris; sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 15 June 1938, lot 21; Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903, inv. no. 1978.50

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
1978.50
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Seymour de Ricci, Dessins du dix-huitème siècle: collection Albert Meyer (Paris, 1935), cat. no. 47, n.p.
  • Élisabeth Launay, Les frères Goncourt: collectionneurs de dessins (Paris, 1991), cat. no. 73, pp. 65-66
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), pp. 324, 536-n.3
  • 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. 106b, repr.

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