2021.83: Portrait of Joseph Coolidge, Jr.
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.83
- People
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Jean Baptiste Joseph Duchesne, French (Gisors, Normandy 1770 - 1856 Paris)
- Title
- Portrait of Joseph Coolidge, Jr.
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1820
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/371412
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor on ivory
- Dimensions
- frame, not counting loop for hanging: 7 × 5.7 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right, black ink: J.B.J. Duchesne. Paris. 1820
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Catherine Coolidge Lastavica, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica in honor of John Coolidge
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.83
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- gold oval frame has opening on back revealing woven hair behind glass, with the letter "J"
Publication History
- Ann Lucas Birle and Lisa A. Francavilla, ed., Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England: The Travel Diary of Ellen Wayles Coolidge, 1838-1839, Massachusetts Historical Society and Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. (Boston and Charlottesville, 2011), repr. as fig 18
Verification Level
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