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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1929.308
People
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title
Sketches for Faust and Dante and Virgil; verso: Sketches for Faust
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1821
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297909

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 19.6 x 30.8 cm (7 11/16 x 12 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Charles L. Kuhn
Accession Year
1929
Object Number
1929.308
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. 679, fig. 355
  • Dante in Art, exh. cat., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon, 1965), p. 23
  • David P. Becker, Drawings for Book Illustration: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., Houghton Library (Cambridge, 1980), under no. 22, p. 38
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 101, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Delacroix in New England Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/1955 - 11/26/1955

Verification Level

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