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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.89
People
Gustave Doré, French (Strasbourg 1832 - 1883 Paris)
Title
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
Other Titles
Former Title: The Last Judgment
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1865
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296237

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on prepared (?) wove paper, darkened and faded
Dimensions
100 x 74.2 cm (39 3/8 x 29 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, white gouache: Gv Doré / 1865

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Ernest Brown & Phillips, LTD., The Leicester Galleries, London (?-1951), sold, April 1951]; to Philip Hofer (1951-1973), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer in memory of Benjamin Rowland, Jr.
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.89
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Explication des Ouvrages de Peinture, Sculpture, Architecture, Gravure et Lithographie des Artistes Vivants Envois des Pensionnaires de L'Académie de France a Rome, et des Grands Prix de 1865, checklist (Paris, 1866)
  • J. Valmy-Baysse and Louis Dézé, Gustave Doré: L'Art et la Vie, Éditions Marcel Seheur (Paris, 1930), repr. full plate facing p. 269
  • Robert Rosenblum and Lisa Small, Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré, ed. Eric M. Zafran, Yale University Press and Dahesh Museum of Art (New York and New Haven, 2007), p. 179 (in checklist of Gustave Doré works in North American Collections, Fogg Art Museum)

Exhibition History

  • Salon de 1866, Palais des Champs-Élysées, 05/01/1866 - 06/30/1866

Verification Level

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