Saint Cecilia, after Raphael | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.182
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Saint Cecilia, after Raphael
Other Titles: Former Title: Sketch after the Head of St. Cecilia
Former Title: Half-Length Study of a Woman with Braided Hair and Ornamental Collar
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1831
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305664

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

13 x 7.4 cm (5 1/8 x 2 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: verso, paper: 251

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: 8.1955.182
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. 206B, reproduced in b/w fig. 523
Diana J. Strazdes, "Washington Allston's 'Beatrice'", Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1994), vol. 6, pp. 63-75, p. 67, fig. 5

Verification Level

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