S55: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- S55
- People
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Preston Powers, American (Florence, Italy 1843 - 1904)
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Swiss (1807-1873)
- Title
- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, bust
- Date
- 1874
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305377
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Marble
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
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65.4 x 47 x 27 cm (25 3/4 x 18 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.)
framed: 116.8 x 45.7 x 25.4 cm (46 x 18 x 10 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: left shoulder: No. 7/P. Powers (caps)/Sculp. 1874
- inscription: base: Louis Agassiz/1807-1873/by P. Powers
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Harvard University Portrait Collection
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection
- Object Number
- S55
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 6
- 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), p. 276
Verification Level
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