1962.87: Lemonade Seller

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1962.87

People

Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet, called Horace, French (1789 - 1863)

Title

Lemonade Seller

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th-19th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296769

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.

Dimensions

actual: 16.6 x 15.2 cm (6 9/16 x 6 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Brown ink, along lower edge: Bière. Limonade.orgeat.rgeat limonaded' la bière.
• collector's mark: lower right, stamp, red ink: [crown] M. R. [unidentified mark, Lugt 3901]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Unidentified Private Collection (L. 3901). Dr. George Encil, Montreal and Paris. [Bernard Black Gallery, New York, sold in 1962]; to Dr. Fritz B. Talbot, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Dr. Fritz B. Talbot

Accession Year

1962

Object Number

1962.87

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 321, repr.
• Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under L. 3901

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