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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.32
People
Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, French (Paris 1717 - 1806 Paris)
Title
Joseph-Henri de Bombelles, Comte de La Motte-Saint-Lié, in the Tuileries Gardens
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1765
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/337521

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black and red chalk, and white gouache on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black and brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
30.5 x 18 cm (12 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: mount: J. Honig & Zoonen
  • inscription: mount, dated, lower center, brown ink: Mr. ["r." in superscript] Le Baron de Bombelles, Capitaine aux gardes françaises. / 1765.
  • inscription: verso of mount, bottom center, brown ink: Bon. de Bombelles capn. aux garde. françaises / carmontel delin. 1765
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: a
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, brown ink: 243

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist’s estate; his estate sale, Paris, 17 April 1807, lot 22; Chevalier Richard de Lédans, Paris; his sale, 3 November 1816; Pierre de la Mésangère, Paris; his sale, 18 July 1831, part of lot 304, sold; to John Duff, bequest; to Duff family, by descent; sale, Christie’s, London, 15 December 1992, lot 182; Galerie Terrades, Paris, sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2011, 2011.32

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund, Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, and purchase through the generosity of Virgilia Klein and the Bunge North America Foundation
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.32
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chevalier Richard de Lédans, "Catalogue des portraits dessinés et peints par Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle" (unpublished manuscript, 1807)., cat. no. 396, p. 94
  • 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. 75, repr., p. 261

Exhibition History

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