G1705: Hercules Rejects Pleasure and Chooses Virtue
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G1705
- People
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Simon Gribelin, French (1661 - 1733)
After Paolo de Matteis, Italian (1662 - 1728)
- Title
- Hercules Rejects Pleasure and Chooses Virtue
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1713
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/277347
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
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Image: 24.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/4 × 12 3/8 in.)
Plate: 28.5 × 33 cm (11 1/4 × 13 in.)
Sheet: 30 × 35 cm (11 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- IFF, vol. XI, no. 57, p. 7; Le Blanc 6
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1705
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- David Solkin, Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1992), repr. as fig. 16 on p. 63 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
Verification Level
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