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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.114
People
Attributed to Claude Simpol, French (1666 - 1716)
Previously attributed to Jacques Stella, French (Lyon 1596 - 1657 Paris)
Title
June: Sheep-Shearing (from a Series of Twelve Months)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/169506

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised
Dimensions
sight: 22.3 x 30.3 cm (8 3/4 x 11 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean-Christophe Baudequin at Galerie Ratton et Ladriere, Paris; Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris (as of 2001); Harvard Art Museum/ Fogg Museum, 2001, inv. no. 2001.114

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Foundation
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.114
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2000-2001 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), p. 10, repr.
  • Jamie Mulherron, Claude Simpol's "Divertissemens" for Jean Mariette, Print Quarterly, Print Quarterly Publications (London, March 2008), vol. XXV, no. 1, pp. 23-36, p. 30, fig. 10, repr.
  • Margaret Morgan Grasselli, "Tanging the Bees: A Curious Apiarian Practice in a Drawing by Claude Simpol", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (2009), vol. 47, no. 4, Winter, pp. 443-446, pp. 443, 446 n. 2

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