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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.328
People
Gustave Doré, French (Strasbourg 1832 - 1883 Paris)
Title
Christ Carrying the Cross
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/317940

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream wove paper
Dimensions
irregular: 83.2 x 63 cm (32 3/4 x 24 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, black crayon: 26t19[?] / 24[ ]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Williams, London; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston; Harvard Art Museum/ Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 2006.328

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.328
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert Rosenblum and Lisa Small, Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré, ed. Eric M. Zafran, Yale University Press and Dahesh Museum of Art (New York and New Haven, 2007), p. 83, repr. p. 82 as fig. 99, p. 178 (in checklist of Gustave Doré works in North American Collections, The Jeffrey Horvitz Collection)

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