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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H205
People
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, French (Arques, France 1777 - 1850 Paris, France)
Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, French (1771-1802)
Title
Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771-1802)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311332

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40.6 x 32.3 cm (16 x 12 11/16 in.)
framed: 46.7 x 24.1 x 4.1 cm (18 3/8 x 9 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: De Blainville

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Winslow Lewis, M.D. to the Medical School, 1869
Object Number
H205
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. 8
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 20

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