1965.248: Portrait of Marc Trapadoux

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.248

People

Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)

Title

Portrait of Marc Trapadoux

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1847

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296755

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black crayon on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

18.9 × 15.1 cm (7 7/16 × 5 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: initialed at left: G.C.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.248

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 653, fig. 331
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 88, n.p., pl. 88, repr.
• Erich Franz and Bernd Growe, Georges Seurat: Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Prestel Verlag (Munich, 1983), p. 29, fig. 16
• Heather McPherson, The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2001), p. 20, fig. 7
• Niklaus Manuel Güdel, Anne-Sophie Poirot, and Philippe Clerc, Gustave Courbet: Les dessins, Les cahiers dessinés (Paris, 2019), no. 18, repr. p. 109, pp. 37, 106, 349, 353, 359

Exhibition History

• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

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