1931.26: Scene in Venice

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

Permissions

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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

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