1936.150.551: Landscape
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.150.551
- People
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Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
After Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)
- Title
- Landscape
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th-20th century
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307255
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, white gouache and graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 25.3 x 35.4 cm (9 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.l.: DWR
- inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Following a composition by Claude Lorrain / in the Louvre: a composition in ²4 I think. / I used the following palette: White with Chinese vermilion R / White with Cerulean Blue / White with / Dark Cadmium Y / and Viridian Green / White with Chinese vermilion / White with Cerulean Blue N / to represent the Light in Shadows. / Blue Black with Dark Cadmium / Indian Red Alizarin Crimson / Black with Cerulean Blue / Registers / Light.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Bequest of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
- Accession Year
- 1936
- Object Number
- 1936.150.551
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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