- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.555
- People
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Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss (Berne 1853 - 1918 Geneva)
- Title
- The Wood Chopper (Le coup de grace)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1910
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297806
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink, watercolor, graphite, and blue crayon on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 42.5 x 32.5 cm (16 3/4 x 12 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.r.: Ferdinand Hodler
- watermark: [VID]ALON LES ANNONAY A LAVIS ANC MANUF CANSON & MONTGOLFIER
- inscription: lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: Le coup de grace
- Provenance
- Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, acquired through Martin Birnbaum, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.555
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983
19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
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