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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.202
People
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, French (Carpentras 1758 - 1846 Montmorency)
Title
Italian Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1789
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/364455

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on paper, mounted to board
Dimensions
11.6 × 42.5 cm (4 9/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
board: 12.4 × 43.2 cm (4 7/8 × 17 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • seal: verso, red wax: red wax seal showing a heart pierced with two arrows on a ribbed shield surmounted by a coronet
  • inscription: verso, lower right, blue chalk or crayon: 7851
  • inscription: verso, lower right, pink chalk: 23
  • stamp: verso, lower right, black ink, circle: [edge of circle:] DOUANES FRANÇAIS [center:] RE[illegible text] / de Paris / Nord
  • label: verso, center, partial: A / es de teules especes toiles / s de tous gevier, foi [illegible] ch / Artistes Nou [illegible] leuv / pour
  • label: verso, left, round, handwritten, black ink: 91 [underlined]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Probably the artist's estate, probably sold [through Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, March 25-26, 1847, possibly under lot 60, "39 Etudes de ciel, eau et sites dont on ne peut désigner les lieux,"]. Frederick J. Cummings (1933-1990), Detroit, sold; to [Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1984], sold; to Victor Carlson, 1985, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Victor I. Carlson
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.202
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Possibly a view of the Sabine Mountains

Publication History

  • French Nineteenth Century Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors and Oil Sketches: Recent Acquisitions, exh. cat., Shepherd Gallery (New York, 1985), cat. no. 11, illus.

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