Portrait of Joseph Coolidge, Jr. | Harvard Art Museums

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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2021.83: Portrait of Joseph Coolidge, Jr.