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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.240
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Mount Pilat, Switzerland; verso: Mont Blanc
Other Titles
Former Title: Mount Pilatus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1804
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305862

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
21 x 28.8 cm (8 1/4 x 11 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower edge, graphite: Mont Pilat
  • inscription: verso, lower edge, red pencil: Mont Blanc

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
Object Number
8.1955.240
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar P. Richardson, "Allston and the Development of Romantic Color", The Art Quarterly (Winter 1944), vol. VII, pp. 33-57, p. 46
  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston, 1779-1843, a loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and memorabilia, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1947), no. 37, p. 9
  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), p. 69
  • Thomas W. Leavitt, "Washington Allston at Harvard", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, April 21, 1956), vol. 58, no. 13, p. 551
  • William H. Gerdts, "Washington Allston and the German Romantic Classicists in Rome", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1969), vol. XXXII, no. 2, pp. 167-196, pp. 171, 173, fig. 6
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 145A, reproduced in b/w fig. 394; verso, no. 145B, fig. 395
  • William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), pp. 210-211, cat. 76, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 55, fig. 9

Exhibition History

  • Washington Allston, 1779-1843: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Memorabilia, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/11/1947 - 06/15/1947; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/17/1947 - 08/24/1947
  • "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980

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