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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.309
People
Auguste Lançon (Saint-Claude 1836 - 1887 Paris)
Title
Road to Mouzon, August 31, 1870
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Route de Mouzon, 31 août 1870
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1870
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370219

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on white laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 23.7 × 33.6 cm (9 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
sheet: 30 × 40.9 cm (11 13/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: Route de Mouzon 31 Aout 1870
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: A Lançon
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: YB [in monogram, encircled] [Lugt 421, mark of Alfred Beurdeley II]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 87/ 3 [?]9
  • watermark: Top center, beginning of each line cut off: ...IS / ... MON / ...2?

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), Paris (Lugt 421). [James A. Bergquist, Boston], sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 1988, as "scene from the Franco-Prussian War," bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
proof
Standard Reference Number
IFF 11(?)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.309
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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