1898.25: Monkeys Making Music
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1898.25
- People
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Manner of Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
- Title
- Monkeys Making Music
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Monkey Fantasy
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/298354
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk and touches of brown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk
- Dimensions
- 30.8 x 21 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: A crown, from which is suspended a fleur-de-lis (Mongan-Sachs W. 75)
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
- 1898.25
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 620
Verification Level
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