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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.71
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Study of a Seated Female Nude
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1805 - 1806
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305554

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions
35.8 x 40.2 cm (14 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Conte
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper

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
8.1955.71
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William H. Gerdts, "Washington Allston and the German Romantic Classicists in Rome", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1969), vol. XXXII, no. 2, pp. 167-196, p. 186, fig. 24
  • William H. Gerdts, The Great American Nude: A History in Art, Praeger Publishers (New York and Washington, DC, 1974), pp.50-51, fig. 3-9
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 229, reproduced in b/w fig. 560
  • 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), p. 221
  • John Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1987), reproduced p. 16

Exhibition History

  • Three Centuries of the American Nude, New York Cultural Center, New York, 05/09/1975 - 07/13/1975; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 08/06/1975 - 09/21/1975; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston, 10/03/1975 - 11/16/1975

Verification Level

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