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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.96
People
Pierre-Simon Laplace, French (1749 - 1827)
After Philippe de Champaigne, French (Brussels 1602 - 1674 Paris)
Title
Saint Charles Borromeo
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of St. Charles Borromeo
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1779
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298725

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk with touches of black ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
26 x 20.3 cm (10 1/4 x 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: middle, across bottom: Charles de Bercy
  • inscription: dated, lower right, outside of framing lines: dessiné par de la Place en 1779.
  • inscription: verso, dated: Au digne Charles de Bercy / Pour sa Fête / Sur ce dessin qu'offre mon Cœur, / au Charlot que mon Esprit vante; / en qualité de donnateur, / Telle est ma volonté constante / Toujours, de Charlot au Charlot, / de Père en fils qu'il soit Le Lot / De La Place / a Paris le 3 Sbre ["bre" in superscript] 1779

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sarah J. Eddy, gift; to Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; to Thomas Barbour, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1933

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Thomas Barbour
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.96
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), vol. I, cat. no. 627, p. 333

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