- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1932.344
- People
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Unidentified Artist
After Charles Le Brun, French (Paris 1619 - 1690 Paris)
Previously attributed to Charles de La Fosse, French (Paris 1636 - 1716 Paris)
- Title
- Entrance of Alexander into Babylon
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Alexander's Triumphal Entry into Babylon
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th-18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297834
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink, black chalk, and brown wash on tan antique laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on off-white card, framing lines in black ink
- Dimensions
- 37.9 x 53 cm (14 15/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Lower left, brown ink: Ch. Le Brun fecit; 1690. (?)
- Provenance
- Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
- Accession Year
- 1932
- Object Number
- 1932.344
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 588, p. 311
Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122
- Related Works
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