H175: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H175

People

Fritz Züber-Bühler, Swiss (Le Locle, Switzerland 1822 - 1896 Paris, France)
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Swiss (1807-1873)

Title

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1844

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311223

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

152.4 × 110.5 cm (60 × 43 1/2 in.)
185.4 × 142.2 × 17.8 cm (73 × 56 × 7 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: F. Zuberbuhler/1844

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of G. R. Agassiz, Max Agassiz, and R. L. Agassiz, 1910.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of G. R. Agassiz, Max Agassiz, and R. L. Agassiz, 1910

Object Number

H175

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 10, ill. p. 11
• Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), pp. 66-67, 81-82, cat. 71, ill.
• 1846: Portrait of the Nation, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1995)
• Frank J. Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, Pantheon Books (New York, NY, 1996), p.
• Jean-Daniel Blant, Louis Favre, 1822-1904, Temoin de son temps, Imprimerie Gasser SA (Switzerland, 2004), ill. p. 29
• 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

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Consulate of Switzerland, 1921, Consulate of Switzerland, New York, 10/31/1921 - 12/19/1921
• Early Science at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1969 - 02/01/1970
• The Lazzaroni, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 12/26/1972 - 05/30/1973

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