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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
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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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