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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.867
People
Guillaume Guillon Lethière, French (Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe 1760 - 1832 Paris)
Title
Death of Virginia
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1828
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297597

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, brown and gray wash, white gouache, and traces of graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 68 × 101.7 cm (26 3/4 × 40 1/16 in.)
image: 56.8 × 97.4 cm (22 3/8 × 38 3/8 in.)
frame: 78.7 × 118.7 × 4.4 cm (31 × 46 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.c.: GME GLON LETHIERE - 1828
  • watermark: J WHATMAN / 1820 / TURKEY MILLS

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
1943.867
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jean Lacambre and Jacques Vilain, "Dessins néo-classiques. Bilan d'une exposition", Revue du Louvre et des musées de France (1976), vol. 26, pp. 67-73, pp. 70-71
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 280, repr.
  • 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. 85, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

Verification Level

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