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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.278
People
Ary Scheffer, Dutch (Dordrecht Netherlands 1795 - 1858 Argenteuil France)
Title
Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Marquis de Lafayette / Portrait of Marquis de Lafayette
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1822
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230115

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
55.3 x 36.8 cm (21 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
framed: 68 x 49.5 x 5.1 cm (26 3/4 x 19 1/2 x 2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Col. T. Connolly, 1893, by descent; to his wife, Mrs. Connolly, sold; to [E. F. Bonaventure Art Galleries, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1918, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.278
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Washington, Lafayette, Franklin: Portraits, Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Memorabilia, for the Most Part from the Collections of the University, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), p. 48, cat. 104
  • Agnes Mongan, Harvard Honors Lafayette, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 43, p. 120-122, repr. in b/w
  • Leo Ewals, "Ary Scheffer: Sa vie et son oeuvre" (1987), Unpublished, pp. 59, 400
  • 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. 129, repr. as no. 196
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 127, pp. 302-304, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 127, pp. 310-311, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • Exposition Universelle internationale, art contemporain 1878-1889, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 05/06/1889 - 11/06/1889
  • World's Columbian Exposition, World's Columbian Exposition site, Chicago, 05/01/1893 - 10/26/1893
  • Exposition Universelle de 1900, Exposition de Paris, Paris, 04/15/1900 - 11/12/1900
  • Washington Lafayette Franklin, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/22/1944 - 05/28/1944
  • Harvard Honors Lafayette, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/03/1975 - 03/12/1976
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • World’s Fairs, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/10/2015

Verification Level

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