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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.240
People
Théodore Chassériau, French (Ste. Barbe de Samana, S. America 1819 - 1856 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Madame Mottez
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1841
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296745

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 27 x 21.5 cm (10 5/8 x 8 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.240
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 649, fig. 327
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 2
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 55, repr.
  • Tatiana Ilatovskaya, Master Drawings Rediscovered: Treasures from Prewar German Collections, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1996), fig. 1, under no. 42
  • Stéphane Guégan and Vincent Pomarède, Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856): The Unknown Romantic; French title: Chassériau: Un autre romantisme, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, NY and London, England, 2002), cat. no. 52, repr. (color), p. 25, fig. 5 (p. 27), detail repr. p. 23 (color)
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 288, repr. p. 288 as fig. 666

Exhibition History

  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856): The Unknown Romantic, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 02/26/2002 - 05/27/2002; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, 06/19/2002 - 09/21/2002; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/21/2002 - 01/05/2003

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