1932.344: Entrance of Alexander into Babylon
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Identification and Creation
- 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
- 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
- Recorded Ownership History
- Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932
Acquisition and Rights
- 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
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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
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