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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1030
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Dijon School Unidentified Artist
Title
Head of Christ
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, head
Date
c. 1500
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Champagne
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230047

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone and micrite with traces of polychromy
Dimensions
31.2 x 22 x 26 cm (12 5/16 x 8 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
with base: 48.5 x 22 x 26 cm (19 1/8 x 8 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Demotte, Inc., New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1918, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1030
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Gothic Sculpture in American Collections: The Checklist: I: The New England Museums", GESTA, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman (1980), vol. XIX, no. 2, no. 38, repr.
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 121 p. 154-155, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Early Christian Art, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 03/01/1927 - 04/30/1927

Verification Level

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