Nude Youth Seated on a Block, for "Italian Shepherd Boy;" verso: Male Nude | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.3
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Nude Youth Seated on a Block, for "Italian Shepherd Boy;" verso: Male Nude
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Young nude boy seated on a stone block (verso: Nude male)
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1806
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305467

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black and white chalk and graphite on darkened blue-buff wove paper
Dimensions: 53 x 41.5 cm (20 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.)

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: 8.1955.3
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston, 1779-1843, a loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and memorabilia, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1947), no. 39, p. 10
Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), p. 207, no. 121
Elizabeth Johns, "Washington Allston: Method, Imagination and Reality", Winterthur Portfolio (Wilmington, DE, 1977), vol. 12, pp. 1-18, p.11, fig. 7
Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 226A, reproduced in b/w fig. 556; verso, no. 226B, fig. 557
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. 221-222

Exhibition History

Washington Allston, 1779-1843: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Memorabilia, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/11/1947 - 06/15/1947; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/17/1947 - 08/24/1947

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