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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1967.34
People
Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)
Title
Arch of Constantine
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296139

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
9.5 x 15.3 cm (3 3/4 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none visible–drawing laid down
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: The Arch of Constantine / 50
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: S.1051

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Queen Christina of Sweden, Rome; possibly Prince Livio Odescalchi, Rome; Odescalchi family, by descent; Hans Calmann, London (by 1961); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund, 1967.34

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
1967.34
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, University of California Press (Berkeley, 1968), vol. 1, cat. no. 142, pp.121-22, vol. 2, pl. 142
  • Margaret Koscienly Parker and Joseph Jeffers Dodge, Remnants of Things Past, exh. cat. (Jacksonville, 1971), cat. no. 11, n.p.
  • 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), cat. no. 26 pp. 64-65
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, "Hans Calmann and the American Market for Old Master Drawings 1937-73", Master Drawings (Spring 2021), vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 49-72, p. 59, fig. 12
  • 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. 25, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Remnants of Things Past, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 01/08/1971 - 02/07/1971; Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, 02/16/1971 - 03/14/1971
  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990

Verification Level

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