8.1955.233: Study from the Antique Sculpture of "Laocoön"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.233

People

Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)

Title

Study from the Antique Sculpture of "Laocoön"

Other Titles

Former Title: Son, from the Antique Statue Laocoön

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1801

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305830

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on gray wove paper

Dimensions

25.2 x 33.5 cm (9 15/16 x 13 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: verso, l.r., paper: 307

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

8.1955.233

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 243, reproduced in b/w fig. 580
• 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. 209, fig. 75

Exhibition History

• Benjamin West and his American Students, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 10/16/1980 - 01/04/1981; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 01/30/1981 - 04/19/1981
• Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995

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