Chateau at Pont Aven | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1960.168
People: Robert Wylie, American (Isle of Man 1839 - 1877 Pont Aven, Brittany)
Title: Chateau at Pont Aven
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1866
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/308598

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and white chalk on green wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 11.9 x 17.8 cm (4 11/16 x 7 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, l.l.: RWylie / Pontaven 1866
inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: To Mr. Champney / from his friend

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Daniel E. Kennedy, Chestnut Hill, MA, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman Fund
Accession Year: 1960
Object Number: 1960.168
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Sheet appears to have been cut from a sketchbook at its left edge.

Publication History

Denise Delouche, Peintres de la Bretagne, Decouverte d'une Province, Klincksieck (Paris, France, 1977), p. 342
Julia Rowland Myers, "'Sympathy for Humanity': Robert Wylie and His Paintings of Breton Life", The American Art Journal (1997), vol. XXVIII, nos. 1-2, pp. 83 - 121; reproduced, p. 85, fig. 2

Verification Level

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1960.168: Chateau at Pont Aven