1943.899: Head of a Woman
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.899
- People
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Pierre Henri Puvis de Chavannes, French (Lyon 1824 - 1898 Paris)
- Title
- Head of a Woman
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1884-1889
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297600
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk or charcoal with touches of oil(?) on tracing paper, mounted to card
- Dimensions
- actual: 36 x 25.8 cm (14 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Acquired from Scott and Fowles, New York, by Grenville L. Winthrop, March 1925 ($750); 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
- 1943.899
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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. 108, 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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