- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1974.78
- People
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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola), French (1908 - 2001)
Théodore Géricault, French (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
- Title
- Husband and Wife, after a Study for "The Raft of the Medusa" by Géricault
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 20th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/295936
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink on gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 20.8 x 26.8 cm (8 3/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Thaw, New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1974.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw
- Copyright
- © Estate of Balthus / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1974
- Object Number
- 1974.78
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Virginie Monnier and Jean Clair, Balthus: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre complet, Gallimard (Paris, France, 1999), no. D396, repr.
- Exhibition History
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Balthus Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Balthus, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Cedex 04, 11/04/1983 - 01/23/1984
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