2010.626: Removing the Dead
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2010.626
- People
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Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Jean-Baptiste Deshays, French (Rouen 1729 - 1765 Paris)
- Title
- Removing the Dead
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/337235
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown ink, brown and gray wash, white gouache and black and white chalk with some stumping, on light brown antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 55.2 x 40.5 cm (21 3/4 x 15 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Rff[?]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Lucien Goldschmidt, New York (as French School, second half of 18th century)] sold 1980; to Jean Massengale; [Sotheby's, London, July 4, 2007, lot 130, repr. (bought in)]; John Massengale, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Jean Montague Massengale Collection
- Accession Year
- 2010
- Object Number
- 2010.626
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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