1942.123: Saint Paul Preaching at Athens
DrawingsThe man faces us with his right foot stepping slightly forward, his placid face turned slightly to the left looking towards his right hand which is held out with open palm up. He has a beard with receding hairline and a chiseled face. The background is undefined textures and lines varying from light to dark near the bottom half of the drawing.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.123
- People
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John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)
- Title
- Saint Paul Preaching at Athens
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1884
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307798
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white wove paper mounted on heavy ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
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15.7 x 11.7 cm (6 3/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
mount: 29.4 x 25 cm (11 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Border drawn around image.: 13.4 x 8.4 cm (5 1/4 x 3 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: red ink, l.l.: stamped with the artist's Japanese name stamp
- inscription: l.l., graphite: St. Paul copy of picture
- inscription: verso, graphite: #5680
- inscription: verso, graphite: St. Paul
- label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper, printed: [In design of a stone tablet with a shield with lion rampant, helmet to l.r.:] Grenville / Lindall / Winthrop
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[John La Farge estate sale, American Art Association, New York, March 29-31, 1911, no. 737], sold; to Mrs. Schuyler N. Warren (Alice Binsse). [Scott & Fowles, New York] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1924, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.123
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Henry A. La Farge, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of John La Farge, Unpublished (n.d.), card 785
- Henry A. La Farge, "John La Farge and the 1878 Auction of his Works", The American Art Journal (Summer 1983), vol. XV, no. 3, reproduced p. 29, fig. 24
- Helen Barbara Weinberg, "John La Farge and the Decoration of Trinity Church, Boston", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (December 1974), vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 323-53, no. 33, fig. 19
- Helen Barbara Weinberg, "The Decorative Work of John La Farge" (Thesis, Columbia University, 1977), Garland Press, no. 46, reproduced fig. 6
- James L. Yarnall, "The Role of Landscape in the Art of John La Farge" (Thesis, University of Chicago, 1981), Unpublished, no. 99
Verification Level
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