1898.576: Daphnis and Chloe, after Gessner's "Idyll"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.576

People

Johann Christian Klengel, German (Kesselsdorf, Germany 1751 - 1824 Dresden, Germany)

Title

Daphnis and Chloe, after Gessner's "Idyll"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299173

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown and black ink and brown wash on cream paper

Dimensions

actual: 47.2 x 67.2 cm (18 9/16 x 26 7/16 in.)

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

1898.576

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Central European Drawings, 1680-1800: a Selection from American Collections, exh. cat., Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ, 1989), p. 9, 18, cat. no. 97 p. 258, repr.
• William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 11
• Sarah Vure, The John Witt Randall Collection: Seeking the True and the Beautiful, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 18
• 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, fig. 3, p. 162
• Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil, "Glücklich gewählte Natur..." Der Dresdner Landschaftsmaler Johann Christian Klengel (1751-1824): Monographie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Radierungen und Lithographien, Georg Olms Verlag (Hildesheim, Germany, 2005), no. Z 490 p. 209, repr.

Exhibition History

• 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
• Central European Drawings 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 10/21/1989 - 12/03/1989; University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 01/10/1990 - 02/25/1990
• Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998

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