1955.6: Jean-Louis-Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1955.6
- People
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William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
- Title
- Jean-Louis-Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308480
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Charcoal and beige chalk on buff wove paper
- Dimensions
- 68.8 x 52.2 cm (27 1/16 x 20 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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By descent through Agassiz family to Pauline Shaw Fenno; sold to Giovanni Castano, Castano Galleries Boston, 1955; sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1955. [Fenno was a great-granddaughter of Agassiz. Frances Agassiz, the sitter's daughter, married Quincy Adams Shaw, a friend of William Morris Hunt.]
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Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. George R. Agassiz
- Accession Year
- 1955
- Object Number
- 1955.6
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Francis Russell, The Making of a Nation, American Heritage (New York, NY, 1968), p. 311
- 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. 276
Verification Level
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