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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.150
People
Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune, French (Paris 1715 - 1790 Paris)
Title
David Hume
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1764
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296576

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, stumped, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite
Dimensions
diameter: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower center, graphite: Dessiné par C.N. Cochin 1764.
  • watermark: VAN DE[R LEY]
  • inscription: signed and dated, lower center, graphite: Dessiné par C.N. Cochin 1764.
  • inscription: mount, verso, on label, upper center, black ink: 89946
  • inscription: mount, verso, on label, lower center, black ink: 4203
  • inscription: mount, verso, on cream antique laid paper, center, black ink: Mr HUME (David) ["r" in superscript] / auteur de l'histoire d'Angleterre / Mort en 1777 / Né à Edinbourg en 1711. de dictionnaire historique, / traduit de l'Anglais de John Watkins publié en / 1803 dit que Mr ["r" in superscript] Hume mourut en 1771 en / Ecosse ou il s'était retiré en 1769.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin, Paris; Charles-Angélique-François Huchet, Comte de la Bédoyère, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 8, 1921, lot 47; Henri Baderou, Paris and Rouen, sold; to Forsyth Wickes, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Forsyth Wickes, inv. no. 1962.150

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Forsyth Wickes
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.150
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue de huit tableaux par Hubert Robert: quarante-trois dessins par Cochin, portraits du XVIIIe siècle provenant du salon de Madame Geoffrin, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, 1921), cat. no. 47, p. 51
  • 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. 72, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/17/2016 - 11/01/2017

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