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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1972.324
People
Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French (Dijon 1750 - 1817 Dijon)
Title
Portrait of Two Men
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1804
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295866

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and black-chalk sauce, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper, prepared with blue ground
Dimensions
39 x 52 cm (15 3/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Royer-Collard, Paris (by 1900); George and Florence Blumenthal, New York (by 1930); Jesse Isidor Straus, New York (by 1958); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 21 October 1970, lot 29; Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert M. Light as a token of appreciation for the outstanding contributions to Harvard and the Fogg Art Museum of Agnes Mongan, inv. no. 1972.324

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert M. Light as a token of appreciation for the outstanding contributions to Harvard and the Fogg Art Museum of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1972
Object Number
1972.324
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stella Rubinstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, A. Lévy (Paris), vol. 5, cat. no. 35
  • Baron Roger Portalis, "Claude Hoin", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1900), ser. 3, vol. 23, pp. 203-16, p. 207
  • Baron Roger Portalis, Claude Hoin (1750-1817): gouaches, pastels, miniatures, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1900), p. 43
  • André Weil, Claude Hoin, peintre de monsieur (1750-1817): peintures, gouaches, dessins, miniatures, gravures, exh. cat., Galerie André Weil (Paris, 1934), cat. no. 47
  • Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 61, n.p.
  • Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), cat. no. 61, n.p.
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 61, pp. 58-59
  • "Acquisitions", Annual Report (Fogg Art Museum), ed. Daniel Robbins, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1972-1974), pp. 94-139, p. 113
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 72, 281, repr. p. 72 as fig. 4
  • 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. 104, repr.

Exhibition History

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