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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.127
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
Old Doorway, Venice
Other Titles
Former Title: Venetian Doorway
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1877
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308569

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
39.2 x 28.4 cm (15 7/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Brown watercolor, lower right, C. H. M. / VENICE 1877
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, black ink on paper, handwritten: Water-color by Prof. / Charles H. Moore of Harvard. / Venetian door-way.
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, black ink on paper, handwritten: Artist, Charles H. Moore / Owner, C. E. Norton / Cambridge
  • inscription: old mount, now in curatorial file, black ink: E. G. N. / from / C. E. N.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the artist to Charles Eliot Norton, Cambridge, MA; Miss Elizabeth Norton, Cambridge, MA; her gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1957.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Elizabeth G. Norton in memory of Charles Eliot Norton and Charles Herbert Moore
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.127
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Herbert Moore, Catalogue, with Notes, of Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice; and of Fac-similes and Original Works to be Used as Exercises in Drawing, Belonging to the Fine Arts Department of Harvard University, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 1878), p. 18, cat. 22
  • "Fine Arts: The Exhibition of Rejected Watercolors", New York Herald, New York Herald (New York, NY, February 23, 1882), p. 5, pg. 5
  • Frank Jewett Mather, Charles Herbert Moore: Landscape Painter, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1957), p. 50, fig. 29
  • Kathleen A. Foster, The Scandal of 1882: An American Salon des Refusés, Archives of American Art Journal (Washington, DC, 1979), no. 2, pp. 19-25., pp. 19-25
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., William H. Gerdts, Erica E. Hirshler, Fred Licht, and William L. Vance, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1992), pp. 388-390, cat. 106, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 88
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 36, 67, 94, pl. 19
  • 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. 242, cat. no. 200, reproduced in color
  • Sophie Lynford, Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites, Princeton University Press (Princeton/Oxford, 2022), pp. 220, 222, fig. 112

Exhibition History

  • Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice..., Harvard Art Club, Cambridge, 12/01/1878 - 12/31/1878
  • Untitled Water Color Exhibition (Salon des Refusés), American Art Galleries, 01/01/1882 - 01/01/1882
  • American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
  • The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 09/16/1992 - 12/13/1992; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/03/1993 - 04/11/1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 05/16/1993 - 08/08/1993
  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

Verification Level

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