Male Nude Seen from Behind | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1985.76
People: Oscar Fehrer, American (Brooklyn, NY 1872 - 1958 New York, NY)
Title: Male Nude Seen from Behind
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1897
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/309272

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

63.2 x 48.4 cm (24 7/8 x 19 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: charcoal, center right: Paris 1897 / OF
watermark: Ingres at Lower left corner, running up left edge, and shield at top left corner (both are reversed when viewed from recto): INGRES and shield with CF, two intertwined snakes and hermes winged helmet
inscription: l.r., graphite: 79.43.124

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Childs Gallery, Boston, MA, Sold to Vermeer Associates, Limited, 1980.
Vermeer Associates Limited, Purchased from Childs Gallery, 1980, Sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund, Louise Haskell Daly Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund
Accession Year: 1985
Object Number: 1985.76
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Repairs to losses at u.l., l.r., u.r. Creased at u.r.

Publication History

Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1994), no. 12, checklist no. 27, p. 11

Exhibition History

Three Artists of Pleasant Valley: Robert Vonnoh, Oscar Fehrer, and Eugene Higgins, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, 06/01/1991 - 07/28/1991
Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995
Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

Verification Level

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