1943.703: The Ghost of Clytemnestra, from Aeschylus's "The Furies" ("Eumenides")

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.703

People

John Flaxman, British (York, England 1755 - 1826 London, England)

Title

The Ghost of Clytemnestra, from Aeschylus's "The Furies" ("Eumenides")

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1792

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297559

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and graphite on cream laid paper

Dimensions

22 x 34 cm (8 11/16 x 13 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.703

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• G. E. Bentley, Jr., The Early Engravings of Flaxman's Classical Designs: A Bibliographical Study, New York Public Library (New York, NY, 1964), p. 46
• Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), pp. 136-137, no. 95b, repr. p. 137
• David Irwin, John Flaxman, 1755-1826, Rizzoli (New York, 1979), pg. 88, pl. 112
• Sarah Symmons, Flaxman and Europe: The Outline Illustrations and their Influence, Garland (New York, NY and London, England, 1984), fig. 11=Nottingham Castle Museum version of Ghost of Clytemnestra
• Joselita Raspi Serra, ed., Paestum and the Doric revival, 1750-1830: essential outlines of an approach, exh. cat., Centro Di (Florence, Italy, 1986), p. 60; repr. fig. 58
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 173, repr. (color)
• Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 173, repr.
• Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 79, 281, repr. p. 76 as fig. 1

Exhibition History

• Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
• The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
• Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017

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