1898.46: Diogenes and Alexander
Drawings
This object does not yet have a description.
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
- Permissions
-
The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
Publication History
- Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 622
Verification Level
This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu