2009.84: Portrait of Adeline Lesseine
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2009.84
- People
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Jean Delville, Belgian (Leuven, Belgium 1867 - 1953 Brussels)
- Title
- Portrait of Adeline Lesseine
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1899
- Culture
- Belgian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/332787
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Colored pencil and graphite on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 29.3 x 23 cm (11 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l., blue pencil: JEAN DElVillE / 1899
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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The sitter's family; [art market, Belgium] sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Jean Noel, Liège; to [Galerie Monique Martel, Brussels] sold; to Harvard Art Museum, 2009
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund, Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, and William C. Heilman Fund
- Accession Year
- 2009
- Object Number
- 2009.84
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- The sitter has been identified as the artist's sister-in-law Aline Lesseine.
Publication History
- Carey Dunne, Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism, Hyperalleric (July 4, 2016), [e-journal], http://hyperallergic.com/305877/flowers-of-evil-and-the-macabre-literary-imagination-of-symbolism/, accessed January 9, 2017
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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