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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1931.26
People
Charles Stuart Forbes, American (Geneva, Switzerland 1856 - 1926)
Title
Scene in Venice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1904
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306504

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on off-white illustration board
Dimensions
47.4 x 30.1 cm (18 11/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: Charles S. Forbes / Venice-1904
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 5158 Olsson / 18 x 26 - 8051 / 81 mat [ ]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul R. Forbes, El Paso, TX; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1931.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul R. Forbes
Accession Year
1931
Object Number
1931.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Danforth Museum of Art, Explorations in Realism 1870-1880: Frank Duveneck and his Circle from Bavaria to Venice, exh. cat. (Framingham, Massachusetts, 1989), cat. no. 59
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 105, cat. 70, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Explorations in Realism 1870-1880: Frank Duveneck and his Circle from Bavaria to Venice, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, 04/21/1989 - 07/02/1989

Verification Level

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