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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.76
People
Jean-Robert Ango, French (active 1759 - after 1773)
After Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
Massacre of the Innocents
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Massacre des Innocents
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297362

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on two adhered sheets of cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
17.2 x 20.9 cm (6 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none visible: drawing is laid down
  • inscription: lower left, black chalk: Le Poussin - Palais Justiniani.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Noël Monod, Greenwich, CT, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.76
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alexandre Ananoff, L'Œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1961-1970), vol. III, cat. no. 1878, p.199 (as attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard)
  • Marianne Roland Michel, "Sous le signe de l'abbé de Saint-Non" in "La donation Suzanne et Henri Baderou au musée de Rouen: peintures et dessins de l'École Française", Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1980), pp. 89, 92 n. 4
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Panopticon italiano: un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, 1986), cat. no. 108, pp. 151, 361, repr. (as attributed to Jean-Robert Ango)
  • Mark Jones and Mario Spagnol, Sembrare e non essere: i falsi nell’arte e nella civiltà, Longanesi & Co. (Milan, 1993), under cat. no. 125, pp. 138-39, fig. 125e, repr.
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin: La collection du musée Condé à Chantilly, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1994-1995), under cat. no. 3, p. 49, fig. 3m, repr.

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