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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.308
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/296537

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, and gouache on off-white wove paper, slightly darkened
Dimensions
irregular: 24.3 x 15.8 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, brown ink: EMeissonier
  • watermark: J. Whatman

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
1965.308
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. 96
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 710, fig. 379
  • Sarah Whitfield, The Academic Tradition: An Exhibition of Nineteenth-century French Drawings, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1968), no. 73, repr.
  • 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
  • The Academic Tradition: An Exhibition of Nineteenth-Century French Drawings arranged by the Indiana University Art Museum, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 06/19/1968 - 08/11/1968
  • Romance in Steel: The Heritage of Armor, Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, 01/02/2001 - 06/03/2001

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