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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR63.5531
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1740-1750
Culture
German?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222980

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Alabaster
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
sight: 36.8 cm (14 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
BR63.5531
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 31, cat. no. 80 pp. 129-131, repr. as pls. LXX and LXXI
  • Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967), ill. n.p.
  • Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), repr. p. 66 as fig. 116

Exhibition History

  • Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
  • German Sculpture, 1500 - 1960: A New Installation, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/05/1984 - 12/31/1984
  • German Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 01/21/1986 - 03/10/1986

Verification Level

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