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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.135
People
Claude Mellan, French (Abbeville 1598 - 1688 Paris)
Title
Saint Theresa
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298331

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown and black ink, gray wash, black chalk and white gouache
Dimensions
43 x 30.1 cm (16 15/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: beneath the books at left, brown ink: CM 1621
  • watermark: eagle in an oval(?)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sternberg-Manderscheid. Sir Edward Buchan. Lindner collection. 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
1898.135
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Johann Gottlieb Abraham Frenzel, Sammlung der Kupferstiche und Handzeichnungen Sr. Excellenz des Grafen Franz von Sternberg-Manderscheid, C.C. Meinhold & Söhne (Dresden, 1836-1847), vol. 5, no. 835, p. 117
  • Georg Kasper Nagler, Die Monogrammisten und die Jenigen Bekannten und Unbekannten Künstler aller Schulen..., G. Franz (Munich, 1858-1879), vol. 2, p. 152
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 593

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