2024.220: Medal Design, War and Peace: HOC CUSTODE SECURA

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2024.220

People

Attributed to Louis-Claude Vassé, French (Paris 1716 - 1772 Paris)
Previously attributed to Edme Bouchardon, French (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698 - 1762 Paris)

Title

Medal Design, War and Peace: HOC CUSTODE SECURA

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1764

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54449

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face

Dimensions

sight: 27.5 x 30.5 cm (10 13/16 x 12 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: around image (legend), red chalk, in artist's hand: HOC CUSTODE SECURA
• inscription: below image (exergue), red chalk, in artist's hand: EXTRAORDINAIRE DES / GUERRES / 1765
• inscription: on blue mount, brown ink: le 26 octobre 1764 remis a m / Roettier le fils le dessein

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Austin Gunnison, Cincinnati, Ohio. Private Collector, California. [Christie's, Paris, March 18, 2004, part of lot 110], sold; to William W. Robinson, Newton, Massachusetts, 2004, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2024.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William W. Robinson and Nancy Yocco

Accession Year

2024

Object Number

2024.220

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Winslow Ames, "Bouchardon and Company", Master Drawings (Winter 1975), vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 379-400, no. 56, p. 398, pl. 43b

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