1948.15.10: Study for the Portrait of Désiré Joseph Mercier
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1948.15.10
- People
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Cecilia Beaux, American (Philadelphia, PA 1855 - 1942 Philadelphia, PA)
- Title
- Study for the Portrait of Désiré Joseph Mercier
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1919
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229505
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
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26 x 18.1 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
framed: 29.9 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: back of board, black ink, in artist's hand: Sketch for portrait / of the Cardinal / Mercier owned / by National Gallery / in Washington / C. Beaux
- label: back of board, graphite on paper, handwritten: 16
- inscription: back of board, black ink, stencilled, French: 3 / BLANCHET / 38 / RUE BONAPARTE / PARIS
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- By descent from the artist to her nephew, Dr. Cecil K. Drinker; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Cecil K. Drinker
- Accession Year
- 1948
- Object Number
- 1948.15.10
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Mercier was made Cardinal in 1907. The finished version of this painting is at the National Gallery of American Art/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Publication History
- The Paintings and Drawings of Cecilia Beaux, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1955), p. 79
- Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1974), no. 70, repr. p. 114
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 40, cat. no. 13
Exhibition History
- Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadephia, 09/06/1974 - 10/20/1974; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 01/21/1975 - 03/02/1975
Verification Level
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