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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.137
People
Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune, French (Paris 1715 - 1790 Paris)
Title
Allegory of Reims
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Study for a Cartouche in the 1769 Map of Reims
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1768
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/319236

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk and touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
26.4 × 40.1 cm (10 3/8 × 15 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: partial countermark: PVI

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sale, Drouot (Tajan), Paris, 18 May 2006, lot 69; Galerie Talabardon, Paris; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, inv. no. 2007.137

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.137
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Thomas W. Lentz, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2006-7, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2008), p. 24
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 73, repr.; detail repr. p. 203

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