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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1961.79
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/297198

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Unbound; twenty-three pages of off-white wove paper
Dimensions
16.4 x 12.4 cm (6 7/16 x 4 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
May Sarton, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of May Sarton
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.79
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 eleven folded sheets of paper and one loose sheet half the size of the other sheets, with no cover. The consistency of the paper and media indicates that they were all part of the same sketchbook. It was catalogued as if it were bound with numbers assigned to each page. The present order of the pages was determined by close examination in the Fogg's paper conservation lab, taking into account the size and edges of the sheets and the offsetting of media onto adjacent pages.

Page 3, 5, 19 and 21 contain the watermark A. Lepage Ainé Tochon-Lepage Succr.
Commentary
The sketchbook came to the Fogg Art Museum as a loose collection of eleven folded sheets of paper and one loose sheet half the size of the other sheets, with no cover. The consistency of the paper and media indicates that they were all part of the same sketchbook. It was catalogued as if it were bound with numbers assigned to each page. The present order of the pages was determined by close examination in the Fogg's paper conservation lab, taking into account the size and edges of the sheets and the offsetting of media onto adjacent pages.

Page 3, 5, 19 and 21 contain the watermark A. Lepage Ainé Tochon-Lepage Succr.

Exhibition History

  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
  • 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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