1955.76: Massacre of the Innocents
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1955.76
- People
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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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