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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.516
People
Anton Graff, Swiss (Winterthur, Switzerland 1736 - 1813 Dresden)
Title
Johann Georg Sulzer
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Portrait e Johann Georg Sulzer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/381007

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on off-white paper
Dimensions
sight: 12 × 9.4 cm (4 3/4 × 3 11/16 in.)
frame: 25.5 × 23.5 cm (10 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: Graf delin
  • inscription: back of frame, paper fragment, inscription in brown ink: J.G. Sulzer Prof / nat 1720

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Auktionshaus Stuker, Bern, November 18, 1992, lot 1346]. [Hotel de Ventes de Geneve, Geneva, March 9, 2016, lot 970]. [August Laube, Zürich], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, 2016, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter F. Soriano ’81
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.516
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gemälde Helvetica und Bücher, Dekorative Graphik, auct. cat., Galerie Jürg Stuker (Bern, November 17-28, 1992), p. 64, lot no. 1346

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