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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H138
People
Unidentified Artist
Lorenz Heister (1683 - 1758)
Title
Lorenz Heister (1683-1758), copy after?
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
18th-19th centuries
Culture
European
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310793

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
85.7 x 64.8 cm (33 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.)
framed: 94.9 x 74 x 2.5 cm (37 3/8 x 29 1/8 x 1 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: bottom of frame, brass, inscribed: LORENZ HEISTER/B 1683 D 1758/PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND SURGERY/UNIVERSITY OF ALTDORF, BAVARIA

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop to the University, 1855

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop to the University, 1855
Object Number
H138
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 22
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 70

Verification Level

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