1943.399: Fragment of "L'Education Sentimentale"
DrawingsThis drawing shows a stocky, elderly woman wearing a simple pink dress over a full-length black gown. Her wide hat is ornamented with puffy white feathers and a single black bow. She looks down to read a letter in her right hand. The background of this drawing is plain, with just a green floor and white wall.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.399
- People
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
- Title
- Fragment of "L'Education Sentimentale"
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1894
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297875
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink, watercolor, and graphite on white paper
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 9 cm (10 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Zatlin 889B
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.399
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Chris Snodgrass, Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY and Oxford, England, 1995), pp. 30-31
- Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), vol. 2, no. 889B, pp. 78-80, repr. p. 79
Verification Level
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