- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1978.136
- People
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Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne, French (1631-1681)
Previously attributed to School of Simon Vouet, French (Paris 1590 - 1649 Paris)
- Title
- Mercury Presenting the Lyre to Apollo; verso: Study for a Muse
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Mercury Presenting the Lyre to Apollo on Mount Parnassus; verso: Study for a Muse
Former Title: Assembly of the Gods - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1673
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/295995
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2400, European Art, 17th century, Rome and Its Influence in the Seventeenth Century
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black chalk, brown ink, and gray wash on light-tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk; verso: black chalk
- Dimensions
- irregular: 28 x 27.3 cm (11 x 10 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: old mount, verso, brown ink, in the hand of the Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel: 573 École de Simon Vouet. Apollon prenant sa lyre des mains de Mércure / au-dessous les muses groupées sur le Parnasse / beau projet de plafond je le crois d’un élève de S. Vouet de quelque Dorigny. Acheté rue des Petits-Augustins, au coin de la rue des Beaux-Arts, chez un brocanteur qui a occupé / temporairement la maison où est établi aujourd’hui une libraire d’archéologie et d’architecture / Ph. de Ch.
- watermark: none
- Provenance
- Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L.2072 or 2073, lower left); possibly his sale, 3-7 April 1900, possibly part of lot 518 or 532; sale, Paris, May 1977; Jacques Petithory, Paris; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund, inv. no. 1978.136
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund
- Accession Year
- 1978
- Object Number
- 1978.136
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674), Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631-1681), Nicolas de Plattemontagne (1631-1706), Galerie de Bayser (Paris, 2000), cat. no. 39, p. 26
Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, "Jean Baptiste de Champaigne et l'oratoire de la reine au château de Versailles", Dessins français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Rencontres de l'École du Louvre, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 2003), no. 17, pp. 219-29, p. 220
Nicolas Milovanovic, Les Grands Appartements de Versailles sous Louis XIV: catalogue des décors peints, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 2005), p. 126
Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. 614, pp. 142-43, 378-79
Frédérique Lanoë and Pierre Rosenberg, Trois maîtres du dessin: Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674), Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631–1681), Nicolas de Plattemontagne (1631–1706), exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 2009), cat. no. 81, pp. 101-102
Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2013), pp. 367, 650
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/07/2022 - 07/18/2022
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