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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.142
People
Raymond Lafage, French (Lisle-sur-Tarn 1656 - 1684 Lyon)
Title
Figure Kneeling Before an Altar
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Figure Kneeling Before a Sacrificial Altar
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297907

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown and black ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
24 x 21.2 cm (9 7/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink: Lafage fecit
  • inscription: mount, upper left, graphite: 31
  • inscription: mount, upper right, graphite: 1, 25
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: ———/ a
  • stamp and inscription: verso, lower center, purple ink stamp and black ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 98 (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: no. 93 (underlined)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Smithson. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.142
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 585
  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, p. 163

Verification Level

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