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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1963.147.3
People
In the style of Charles Percier, French (1764 - 1838)
In the style of Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, French (1762 - 1853)
Title
Elevation of a Fireplace Wall
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Album of Twenty-Six Drawings
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
c. 1798-1804
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356871

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
34.8 × 33.4 cm (13 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Achille Leclère and heirs; Mme Fassier, to; Claude Darton, Avignon. John Goelet, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John Goelet
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
1963.147.3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 266-267, 288, repr. p. 265 as fig. 8

Exhibition History

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