P68: Alphonse de Candolle (1806-1893), after bronze by Hugues Bovy
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P68
- People
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Unidentified Artist
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle (1806 - 1893)
- Title
- Alphonse de Candolle (1806-1893), after bronze by Hugues Bovy
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, bust
- Date
- 1897
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305294
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Painted plaster
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
- sight: 67.3 x 58.4 cm (26 1/2 x 23 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: side of base: Hughes Bovy 1897
- inscription: plaque on base: “Presented to the Gray Herbarium in 1911 by his son, Dr. Casimir de Candolle”
- (not assigned): Gray Herbarium label: “Copy of bronze by Hughes Bovy at the University of Geneva; contemporary and personal friend of Asa Gray.”
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Alphonse Candolle's son, Dr. Casimir de Candolle, to the Gray Herbarium, 1911
- Object Number
- P68
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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