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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.54
People
Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French (Aix-en-Provence 1700 - 1783 Paris)
Title
Profile Head of an Old Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299618

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
15.8 x 15.5 cm (6 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, verso: André Bardon / 160 x 169 mm

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
1898.54
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
She is seen facing left, leaning slightly forward, a small cap on her hair, her peasant dress loosened at the neck.

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 602, p. 323
  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 38, pp. 79, 152, pl. 94, repr.
  • Pierre Rosenberg, "Dandré-Bardon as a Draughtsman: A Group of Drawings at Stuttgart", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 1974), vol. 12, no. 2, Summer, pp. 137-51, 193-206, p. 140
  • Daniel Chol, Michel François Dandré-Bardon ou l'apogée de la peinture en Provence au XVIIIe siècle, Édisud (Aix-en-Provence, 1987), cat. no. 147, p. 112, repr.

Exhibition History

  • French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973

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