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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.15
People
Henri-Edmond Cross, French (Douai, France 1856 - 1910 Saint-Clair, France)
Title
Sketchbook
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1897
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296861

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Unbound; twenty-two pages of off-white wove paper
Dimensions
16.2 x 12.3 cm (6 3/8 x 4 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marie Closset (pen name Jean Dominique), gift to May Sarton. given to May Sarton before Closset's death in 1952
May Sarton, gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1964.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of May Sarton
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.15
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The sketchbook came to the Fogg Art Museum as a loose collection of folded pages, with no cover. The consistency of the paper and the media indicates that the sheets were all part of the same sketchbook. The pages were originally sewn together, but there no longer are threads in the sewing holes. The sketchbook was catalogued as if it were bound, with numbers assigned to each page. The present order of the pages, divided into two signatures, was determined by close examination in the Fogg's paper conservation lab, taking into account the size and edges of the sheets, the position and size of the sewing holes, and the offsetting of media onto adjacent pages.

The first signature is 1964.15.1-14 and is made out of six pieces of paper folded together and two loose sheets half the size of the other sheets. After examination, the two half-sized sheets were inserted as pages 6 and 7. The second signature is 1964.15.15-22 and is made out of four pieces of paper folded together. Both signatures have pages with some of the upper edges trimmed, some not. One single sheet might be trimmed at the top and bottom, at one edge, or not at all.

Page 15 contains the watermark A. Lepage Ainé Tochon-Lepage Succr.

Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), p. 26, cat. no. 14 p. 94
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, website, Harvard University Art Museums, 2006, www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sketchbooks

Exhibition History

  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2007], Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/2007 - 04/08/2007
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2009], Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/2009 - 05/10/2009
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture (Spring 2010), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2010 - 05/09/2010

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