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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S55
People
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
bust, sculpture
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
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
  • 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
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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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