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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.538
People
Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, French (Lyon 1762 - 1833 Leuze)
Title
The Enticements of Sensual Love (?)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298321

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and gray wash with traces of white gouache on blue laid paper, with framing lines in brown ink, laid down on blue laid paper
Dimensions
50.5 x 35.6 cm (19 7/8 x 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.l.: Phi Aug hennequin
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: # 337 [pound sign rotated 45 degrees]
  • inscription: backing board, graphite: Phil. Aug. Hennequin Hist. P. B. Lyons 1763 / died Tournay 1833. pup. David best.
  • inscription: mount, formerly, graphite: R Gilmor cab / Drawing by Phil Aug Hennequin / chief pupil of David

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to 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
1898.538
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jeffrey Fontana, Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Necoclassical Drawing, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist no. 26, repr.
  • 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, pp. 164, 166

Exhibition History

  • Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/07/1999 - 10/31/1999
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/05/2017 - 04/19/2017

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