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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.470
People
Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau le jeune, French (Paris 1741 - 1814 Paris)
Title
Ode to Mademoiselle Camille Vernet
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1806
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/333562

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
13.2 x 20.7 cm (5 3/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., brown ink: J.M. Moreau le j.e. 1806.
  • inscription: brown ink, on plinth: A M.lle CAMILLE VERNET. / Quoi! Votre honté me réserve / L'honneur d'intituler en Vers / Un receuil où bientot les enfants de Minerve / Vont vous tracer leur hommage divers! / L'amour et l'amitié jaloux de vos suffrages / Y déposeront leurs ouvrages: / Chaque muse y mettra du sien; / M'appellant, dans ce livre, à leur doux entrtien, / Par les noms illustrés qui rempliront ses pages, / Vous voulez consacrez le mien; / Je ne crois pas l'inscrire au temple de mémoire; / Mais oublié de l'avenir / Je n'aurai pas vécu sans gloire, / Si je puis le graver dans votre souvenir. / Francois le Peintre.
  • inscription: on former mount, bottom center, in cartouche, brown ink: MOREAU le Jeune / 1741-1814

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1997, lot 279]. [Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2000, lot 218] sold; to Charles Haar, Cambridge

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Haar and Suzanne Keller Haar
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.470
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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