H216: Reginald Heber Fitz (1843-1913)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H216

People

Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, American (Passau, Bavaria 1855 - 1932 Boston, MA)
Reginald Heber Fitz (1843 - 1913)

Title

Reginald Heber Fitz (1843-1913)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1914

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299706

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

126.1 x 99.4 cm (49 5/8 x 39 1/8 in.)
framed: 145.7 x 119.5 cm (57 3/8 x 47 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.r.: I.M. Gaugengigl
• inscription: reverse of canvas: Inscribed verso: I. M. Gaugengigl, Pinxit / From photograph

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift on behalf of more than one hundred former associates and pupils of Dr. Fitz to the Medical School, 1914

Object Number

H216

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Portrait of Dr. Fitz", Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard Bulletin Inc. (Cambridge, MA, October 21, 1914), 17, no. 4, p. 63, p. 63
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 56
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 115, cat. 80, ill.

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