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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.780
People
Théodore Chassériau, French (Ste. Barbe de Samana, S. America 1819 - 1856 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Victor Dupré
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1840
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297649

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and black crayon on off-white modern laid paper, abraded over entire surface
Dimensions
actual: 41.8 x 28.7 cm (16 7/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, lower right: T. Chassériau

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.780
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 156, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 202, repr. as pl. VII
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), cat. no. 109, repr.
  • Marc Sandoz, Portraits et visages dessinés par Théodore Chassériau, Editart Les Quatre Chemins (Paris, 1986), no. 96, repro. (with an erroneous reference to no. 64)
  • Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856): Dessins conservés en dehors du Louvre, auct. cat., Galerie de Bayser (Paris, 1988), no. 33
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 54, 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. 6, 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. 6, repr.
  • Le XIXe siècle, auct. cat., Talabardon & Gautier (Paris, 2003), under no. 18, fig. 7

Exhibition History

  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
  • 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

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