1972.324: Portrait of Two Men

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

Permissions

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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

• Claude Hoin, peintre de monsieur (1750-1817): peintures, gouaches, dessins, miniatures, gravures, Galerie André Weil, 11/27/1934 - 12/15/1934
• French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
• Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017

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