H177: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H177

People

Joseph Alexander Ames, American (Roxbury, NH 1816 - 1872 New York, NY)
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Swiss (1807-1873)

Title

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1859

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/300056

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

75.6 x 62.2 cm (29 3/4 x 24 1/2 in.)
framed: 94.6 x 82.6 x 15.9 cm (37 1/4 x 32 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: GIFT OF CAPTAIN C.H. DAVIS, U.S.N/H177

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Charles Henry Davis, Capt. U.S.N. to the Agassiz Museum, 1902.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Charles Henry Davis, Capt. U.S.N. to the Agassiz Museum, 1902

Object Number

H177

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 10
• Jourdan Moore Houston and Alan Fraser Houston, "Mr. Webster's Greatest Painter: New Hampshire-Born Artist Joseph Alexander Ames", Historical New Hampshire (Spring-Summer 2001), vol. 56, pp. 13, 19, note 60
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 72-73, 276, cat. 26, ill.

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