Commedia dell'Arte Actor | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1939.107
People: Unidentified Artist
In the style of Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Title: Commedia dell'Arte Actor
Other Titles: Former Title: Head of an Actor, Preville (?), of the Commedie Francaise
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230491

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20.32 cm (8 in.)
framed: 40.01 x 33.97 x 7.62 cm (15 3/4 x 13 3/8 x 3 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1939

Object Number

1939.107

Division

European and American Art

Contact

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Publication History

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)

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