2014.12: Temptation
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2014.12
- People
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James Ensor, Belgian (Ostend, Belgium 1860 - 1949 Ostend, Belgium)
- Title
- Temptation
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Tentation
Alternate Title: Femmes en Promenade - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- after 1900
- Culture
- Belgian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/334901
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Crayon and brown ink on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
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23.5 x 19.7 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: lower right corner, black ink over black crayon: Ensor
- plaque: formerly affixed to back of frame: PROPRIETE DE DANIEL BRANTON 17.2.1962
- label: label affixed to the back of the original frame (in curatorial object file): LE CADRE; SOCIÉTE ANONYME; ANCIENNE MAISON MANTEAU; 29, RUE DES DEUX ÉGLISES; BRUXELLES
- label: in blue crayon; affixed to the back of the original frame (in curatorial object file): 2
- label: handwritten in black pen; green border on rectangular label with angled edges, partially torn; affixed to the back of the original frame (in curatorial object file): [...] Willy? [...]
- label: handwritten in black ink; partially torn paper; affixed to the back of the original frame (in curatorial object file): [...] Tentation
- plaque: oval; affixed to upper right of the back of the original frame: Maison Manteau Rue des deux Eglises, 29 Bruxelles
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Leopold Branton, Antwerp (by 1940); (to his wife, Josephine?); to Daniel Branton, Lexington (1962-2014), gift; of Daniel and Lana Branton to Harvard Art Museums, 2014.
Footnotes:
The above information is based on correspondence between Daniel Branton and Stephan Wolohojian. Professor Branton believes that the drawing was left in Antwerp with friends for safekeeping when the family fled before the Nazi occupation of 1940. Leopold Branton later returned to Antwerp to recover his art collection.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Daniel and Lana Branton in memory of Poldek Branton
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels
- Accession Year
- 2014
- Object Number
- 2014.12
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Franklin Einspruch, Fuse Visual Art Review: A Pair of Drawing Shows at the Harvard Art Museums, The Arts Fuse ([e-journal], June 9, 2016)
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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