Full figure of a man standing dressed in neat robes barefoot, extending his arms out, with palms up.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The 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
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
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
  • 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
[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
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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  • Henry A. La Farge, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of John La Farge, Unpublished (n.d.), card 785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

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