1946.59: Athena and Apollo (after Rubens)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1946.59

People

Unidentified Artist
Attributed to Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
After Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (Siegen, Westphalia 1577 - 1640 Antwerp, Belgium)

Title

Athena and Apollo (after Rubens)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Apollo (after a detail of a painting in the Musee du Louvre, Paris)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

19th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229348

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73.34 x 60.01 cm (28 7/8 x 23 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

?Eugène Spiro, Paris, c. 1938. Eben Draper, Hopedale, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1946

Notes: Inscription on back suggests Spiro provenance. 1938 date comes from an article in the Journal of the Walters Art Gallery which refers to this object.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Eben Draper

Accession Year

1946

Object Number

1946.59

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

• Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugene Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816-1831, The Clarendon Press (Oxford & New York, 1981), mentioned under L28, p. 183
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 128

Verification Level