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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.6
People
William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Title
Jean-Louis-Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308480

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal and beige chalk on buff wove paper
Dimensions
68.8 x 52.2 cm (27 1/16 x 20 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent through Agassiz family to Pauline Shaw Fenno; sold to Giovanni Castano, Castano Galleries Boston, 1955; sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1955. [Fenno was a great-granddaughter of Agassiz. Frances Agassiz, the sitter's daughter, married Quincy Adams Shaw, a friend of William Morris Hunt.]
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Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. George R. Agassiz
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Francis Russell, The Making of a Nation, American Heritage (New York, NY, 1968), p. 311
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 276

Verification Level

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