The sixteenth-century Château des Rochers-Sévigné, Vitré, France, 1987. It was home to the seventeenth-century writer Madame de Sévigné, who immortalized it in her famous letters to her daughter. It still belongs to descendants of the marquise.

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2021.496
People: Lauren Greenfield, American (Boston, Massachusetts born 1966)
Title: The sixteenth-century Château des Rochers-Sévigné, Vitré, France, 1987. It was home to the seventeenth-century writer Madame de Sévigné, who immortalized it in her famous letters to her daughter. It still belongs to descendants of the marquise.
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: 1987
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/373297

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Archival pigment print
Technique: Pigment print
Dimensions: sheet: 45.9 × 32.4 cm (18 1/16 × 12 3/4 in.)
image: 45.2 × 31.8 cm (17 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Lauren Greenfield, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Annenberg Space for Photography and Lauren Greenfield
Accession Year: 2021
Object Number: 2021.496
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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2021.496: The sixteenth-century Château des Rochers-Sévigné, Vitré, France, 1987. It was home to the seventeenth-century writer Madame de Sévigné, who immortalized it in her famous letters to her daughter. It still belongs to descendants of the marquise.

Identification and Creation

Physical Descriptions

Provenance

Acquisition and Rights

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