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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.5
People
Charles Le Brun, French (Paris 1619 - 1690 Paris)
Title
Fame Carrying a Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Fame with a Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297120

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and red chalk with gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk, partially incised, verso reddened for transfer
Dimensions
18.6 x 20.5 cm (7 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower right, black chalk: Puget
  • inscription: in drawing, on flag, upper right, black chalk: ELOGII / DEL / CARDINAL / MAZARINI
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: on small tab, lower right, black ink over graphite: vy. [illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Thane, London (his mark L.1544, lower left); William Young Ottley, London (his mark, L.2665, mount, lower right); Castano Gallery, Boston, sold; to Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman Fund, 1954.5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman Fund
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre Rosenberg, "Review: Le Brun at Versailles", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 1963), vol. 1, no. 3, Autumn, pp. 54-56, 98-99, p. 55
  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), p. 174
  • 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. 64, n.p.
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), cat. no. 102, pp. 200-201
  • Véronique Meyer, L'œuvre gravé de Gilles Rousselet: graveur parisien du XVIIe siècle, Commission des Travaux Historiques de la Ville de Paris (Paris, 2004), pp. 296-98
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 30, repr.

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
  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990

Verification Level

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