1963.158: Study for "Prostrate Jews" ("Moses Before Pharaoh")
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1963.158
- People
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Gustave Doré, French (Strasbourg 1832 - 1883 Paris)
- Title
- Study for "Prostrate Jews" ("Moses Before Pharaoh")
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Moses Before Pharaoh
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296668
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, gouache, and white chalk on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 48 x 75.7 cm (18 7/8 x 29 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Richard S. Davis, London, England (1949(?)-1963), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963.
Notes:
In a letter dated March 2, 1964, Richard S. Davis specifies that the drawing was a gift and had been in his collection for the past 15 years.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard S. Davis
- Accession Year
- 1963
- Object Number
- 1963.158
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Robert Rosenblum and Lisa Small, Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré, ed. Eric M. Zafran, Yale University Press and Dahesh Museum of Art (New York and New Haven, 2007), pp. 80, 82, repr. p. 80 as fig. 95, p. 178 (in checklist of Gustave Doré works in North American Collections, Fogg Art Museum)
Verification Level
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