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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.83
People
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
  • 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
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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

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