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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.380
People
Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French (Paris 1746 - 1810 Paris)
Title
Wine Cooler with Winged Allegorical Figure
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Design for a Vase
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1787-1790
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/348936

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on cream laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorative mount
Dimensions
38 × 30.8 cm (14 15/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
mount: 48.4 × 40.7 cm (19 1/16 × 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower right: mark of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris
  • inscription: lower right, in black ink: 232
  • inscription: verso, upper left, in graphite: F [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, upper center, in black ink: N.o. 15

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist’s estate, by descent; to Adélaïde-Marie Moitte (née Castellas), Paris, sold [through her estate sale, Commissaire-Priseur Thierry, Paris, August 20-21, 1807, lot 26]. Possibly Henri Auguste, Paris, before 1816. Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris. [Maison Odiot, Paris]. [Galerie Chantal Kiener, Paris], sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 2005, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey Horvitz in honor of Alvin L. Clark, Jr.
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.380
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Notice de Quelques Tableaux, Dessins et Estampes encadrés et en feuilles; Galerie de Florence, Recueils d'Antiqués et autres...Après le décès de Mme Moitte, Peinture, Épouse de M Moitte, Sculpteur..., auct. cat. (Paris, August 20, 1807), lot 26
  • 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. 103, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/12/2015 - 07/14/2015

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