1967.4: Coronation with Allegorical Figures

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1967.4

People

Traditionally attributed to Jacques Blanchard, French (Paris 1600 - 1638 Paris)

Title

Coronation with Allegorical Figures

Other Titles

Former Title: Children Music Making
Former Title: Allegorical Frieze

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296138

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on decorated paper, framing lines in brown ink

Dimensions

12 x 23.2 cm (4 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Arnold Rosner, Tel Aviv, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1967, inv. no. 1967.4

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund

Accession Year

1967

Object Number

1967.4

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The foreground is dominated by seated women and cavorting putti, presumably representing various arts and virtues. At the extreme left, a woman with bare breasts (possibly Charity) holds a child on her lap, while next to her another figure (possibly Fidelity) restrains a dog. A pair of putti, one holding a slate (possibly Poetry), are just to the left of center, while beyond them two others hold a lute (possibly Music). Closing the frieze at the right is a seated woman with a sheet of paper and compasses at ther side (possibly Architecture). In the background, a man beneath a baldacchino crowns a kneeling figure. Four figures attend them on the dais, while a man and two conversing women observe the scene from the right.

Publication History

• Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, 1966-1967, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1967), p. 162
• Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 6, p. 133, pl. 24, repr.
• Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), under cat. no. 78, pp. 158-159, fig. 78a, repr.
• Jacques Thuillier, Jacques Blanchard 1600-1638, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (Rennes, 1998), cat. no. DR 41, p. 329 (as Unidentified Artist)

Exhibition History

• French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973

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