Female Nude Leaning on a Block | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.21
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Female Nude Leaning on a Block
Other Titles: Former Title: Upper Body, Female Nude
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1804-1806
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305412

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on discolored blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

27 x 44.2 cm (10 5/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: Allston s[eries?] 87

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
Object Number: 8.1955.21
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 233, reproduced in b/w fig. 566
William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), pp. 217-221, cat. 81, ill.

Exhibition History

"A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980

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