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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H179
People
Moses Wight, American (Boston, MA 1827 - 1895 Paris, France)
Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Title
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1852
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311224

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.4 x 63.7 cm (30 1/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
framed: 86.7 x 74.9 x 6.4 cm (34 1/8 x 29 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; to his son, Alexander Agassiz; his bequest to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1910.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Alexander Agassiz, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1910
Object Number
H179
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 79
  • Halina Nelken, Humboldtiana at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Library, Widener Library (Cambridge, MA, 1976), frontispiece, p. 33, cat. 2
  • 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. 452, cat. 476, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Humboldtiana at Harvard, Harvard University Library, Widener Library, Cambridge, 03/22/1976 - 05/02/1976

Verification Level

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