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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.12.15
People
Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French (Rouen 1735 - 1802 Paris)
Title
Rinceaux
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1782
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297364

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
35.1 x 15.8 cm (13 13/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Letters (heart shape) PLG(illeg)ON FIN / AUVERGNE 1742



    (Note 1742 is a very common date for this watermark and its variants)
  • inscription: dated, center, brown ink: Le Reynieres, 1782 [underlined] / L.P. [underlined]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Slatkin, 1957.12.15

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Slatkin
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.12.15
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 264, repr. p. 263 as fig. 5
  • 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. 97, repr.

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