1998.207: Design for a Wall Decoration with the Finding of Moses; verso: Head of a Lion
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1998.207
- People
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Unidentified Artist
After Jean Le Pautre, French (1618 - 1682)
- Title
- Design for a Wall Decoration with the Finding of Moses; verso: Head of a Lion
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Decorative Design, with the Exposition of Moses verso: Head of a Lion
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/312351
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk and brown ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
- Dimensions
- 29.5 x 19 cm (11 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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H. (?) N. Baron von Slingelandt. information from B. Weinreb
H. (?) Bosch Reitz, Laren, Netherlands (?), by descent from his great grandfather. Gt. Grandfather: H. (?) N. Baron von Slingelandt; information from B. Weinreb
B. Weinreb Limited, London, sold to Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., 1980. (Seiden & de Cuevas is now known as Vermeer Associates, Ltd)
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, purchased from B. Weinreb Limited, London, 6, sold to HUAM, 1998.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor and the Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Fund in honor of F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill
- Accession Year
- 1998
- Object Number
- 1998.207
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), p. 194, repr. p. 195 as fig. 99b (as circle of Michel Dorigny)
- Lynda Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, Azimuth Editions Ltd. and Sir John Soane's Museum (London, 1998), p. 366
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