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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.309
People
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French (Lyons 1815 - 1891 Paris)
Title
A Suit of Armor
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296449

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, and gouache on off-white wove paper, slightly darkened
Dimensions
sight: 22.6 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jay Gould. [Duveen] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, by 1927, 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
1965.309
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1929), p. 33, no. 97
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 711, fig. 380
  • Philippe Durey, ed., Ernest Meissonier: Rétrospective, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Lyon, France, 1993), under no. 19

Exhibition History

  • French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929
  • Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943

Verification Level

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