1943.555: The Wood Chopper (Le coup de grace)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.555

People

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

Medium

Colored inks, graphite and colored pencil on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 42.5 x 32.5 cm (16 3/4 x 12 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• 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

Recorded Ownership History

Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, acquired through Martin Birnbaum, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.555

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• 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
• Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016

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