1943.485: Companions

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.485

People

Albert Joseph Moore, British (York, England 1841 - 1893 London, England)

Title

Companions

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1885

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297984

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

43.4 x 22.3 cm (17 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

William Newall; his widow, Mrs. Newall; her sale, Christie's, London, June 8, 1934, no. 62 (£60 18s., as "Comrades"); acquired at that sale through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop (£105); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.485

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Anonymous, "The Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours", Pall Mall Budget (May 1, 1885), pg. 15
• Alfred Lys Baldry, Albert Moore: His Life and Works, Bell (London, 1894), pg. 105
• "The "Old" Water-colour Society, 1804-1904", The Studio, ed. Charles Holme (Spring 1905), special issue, pl. 25
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 61
• Robyn Asleson, Albert Moore, Phaidon Press (London, 2000), pp. 224 note 99, 226 note 173
• Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 67, repr. (color)
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 179, repr. (color)
• Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2003), p. 304
• Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, July 3, 2024), p. 213

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours, Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours, London, 01/01/1885 - 12/31/1885
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
• Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
• Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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