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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.46
People
Hubert François Bourguignon Gravelot, French (Paris 1699 - 1773 Paris)
Title
Diogenes and Alexander
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312402

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink, and brown wash over graphite, with touches of white gouache, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
13.7 x 8.8 cm (5 3/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: bottom: Je suplie donc Alexandre de sôter de mon soleil

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
J. Alexander. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.46
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 622

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