1965.334: The Dying Paris Rejected by Oenone; verso: Study of a Male Nude

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.334

People

Antoine Jean Baptiste Thomas, French (Paris 1791 - 1834 Paris)
Previously attributed to Jean-Antoine Houdon, French (Versailles, France 1741 - 1828 Paris, France)

Title

The Dying Paris Rejected by Oenone; verso: Study of a Male Nude

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1816

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296251

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

22.2 x 31.8 cm (8 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right: Houdon

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Georges Bourgarel [sale, Hotel Drout, Paris, November 13-15, 1922, lot 107]. Richard Owen, sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1928), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.334

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Robert Allerton Parker, "Notes on Drawings at the Fogg Museum", The International Studio (January 1930), vol. 95, no. 392, pp. 36-40, p. 39, repr.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 626, fig. 315
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 319, repr.
• Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 79-80, repr. p. 79 as fig. 2

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