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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.12
People
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, called Lagrenée le jeune, French (Paris 1739 - 1821 Paris)
Title
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296625

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash, black chalk, and white gouache on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
41.5 x 61.1 cm (16 5/16 x 24 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right: LAGRENEE
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper right: [illegible] OMOM

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Galerie de Bayser et Strolin, Paris; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in memory of William A. Jackson, inv. no. 1965.12

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in memory of William A. Jackson
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.12
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alexandre Ananoff, "Les cent petits maîtres qu’il faut connaître", Connaissance des Arts, Connaissance des Arts (Paris, 1964), June-July, pp. 50-59, 62-71, p. 51 (as Jean-Jacques Lagrenée le jeune)
  • "Acquisitions", Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), ed. John Coolidge, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1965), pp. 17-58, p. 35
  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 69, pp. 118, 170
  • Marc Sandoz, Les Lagrenée, Editart Les Quatre Chemins (Paris, 1983-1988), vol. 2, cat. no. G, p. 344 (as attributed to Lagrenée)
  • Patrick Ramade, "Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts: La Fuite en Egypte par Lagrenée le jeune", Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1986), nos. 4-5, pp. 293-95, p. 296-n.21
  • Jacob Bean and Lawrence Turčić, 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1986), p. 137
  • Patrick Ramade, La Fuite en Egypte de Lagrenée le jeune (1739-1821), exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (Rennes, 1986), pp. 21, 22-n.8 (as Lagrenée)
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 80, 129-30, repr. p. 129 as fig. 2
  • 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. 99, repr.

Exhibition History

  • French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973

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