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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.93
People
Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, Swiss (Geneva 1766 - 1847 Morillon, France)
Title
Man Seated Facing Front
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298574

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
23.7 × 15 cm (9 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left: [illegible except for the word "plis"]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Paul Ganz, Basel, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1933

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Professor Paul Ganz of Basel, Switzerland
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.93
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. 457, fig. 231

Exhibition History

  • 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983

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