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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.269
People
Bernard Picart, French (Paris 1673 - 1733 Amsterdam)
Title
Herod Returning Christ to Pilate
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1714
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/329939

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised, adhered to a decorated mount
Dimensions
32.3 x 21.2 cm (12 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, black ink: B. Picart 1714.
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: signed and dated, lower right, black ink: B. Picart f 1714.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Galerie Jean-François Baroni, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (by 1996; inv. no. D-F-348), sold; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, inv. no. 2008.269

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
Accession Year
2008
Object Number
2008.269
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), cat. no. A.286, p. 427
  • 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. 47, repr.

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