Nude Boy Seated on a Block, for "Italian Shepherd Boy" | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.69
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Nude Boy Seated on a Block, for "Italian Shepherd Boy"
Other Titles: Former Title: Yong Boy Seated on a Stone Block
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1804-1808
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305624

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions: 52.5 x 40.5 cm (20 11/16 x 15 15/16 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: 8.1955.69
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 121, p. 207
Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), p. 207
Elizabeth Johns, "Washington Allston: Method, Imagination and Reality", Winterthur Portfolio (Wilmington, DE, 1977), vol. 12, pp. 1-18, p. 11, fig. 6
Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 227, reproduced in b/w fig. 558
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. 220-222, cat. 83, ill.
Nancy Hall-Duncan and William H. Gerdts, The Great American Nude, exh. cat., Bruce Museum (Greenwich, CT, 2002), p. 4, fig. 2 (color), p. 66 (checklist)

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
"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
The Great American Nude, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 06/15/2002 - 09/08/2002

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