Nude Male Seated on a Rock, Holding a Staff (Polyphemus) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.33
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Nude Male Seated on a Rock, Holding a Staff (Polyphemus)
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Polyphemus
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1816 - 1818
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305530

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

16.5 x 10.5 cm (6 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: u.r., graphite, in artist's hand: a Russian soldier / [7 lines, illegible]
inscription: verso, graphite: [ten lines, illegible, including: "and send / me a check for the [ ] / I have therefore / to return you / 3.16 which I [ ] ]

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: 8.1955.33
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. 249, reproduced in b/w fig. 593

Verification Level

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