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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H486
People
William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Swiss (1807-1873)
Title
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1874-1875
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304976

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
55.5 x 45.7 cm (21 7/8 x 18 in.)
framed: 81.9 x 71.1 x 5.7 cm (32 1/4 x 28 x 2 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r: WMH [monogram]
  • inscription: frame back, pencil: on verso: #10671 gold Elan Pat
  • label: on verso: Doll & Richards/Fine Arts & Mirrors/145 Tremont St., Boston

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Probably to the sitter's daughter; Pauline Agassiz Shaw; by descent to her grandson Louis Agassiz Shaw II, Topsfield, MA; his gift to Harvard, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. Louis Agassiz Shaw II, 1940
Object Number
H486
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Art", The Atlantic Monthly (May 1876), vol. 37, p. 630
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 81, ill.
  • Martha J. Hoppin, "William Morris Hunt: Aspects of his Work" (1974), Unpublished and Harvard University, pp. 105, 125-25, 194, fig. 138
  • Martha J. Hoppin, "William Morris Hunt: Portraits from Photographs", The American Art Journal (New York, NY, April 1979), vol. XI, no. 2, pp.46-47, 57, fig. 3
  • 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. 30, 275-76, cat. 222, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Early Science: Smith and Harvard. Innovations, Instruments, Documents., Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 02/03/1971 - 03/19/1971
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Verification Level

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