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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.693
People
Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, American (Fürth, Germany 1823 - 1909 Vienna, VA)
Title
The Holy Grail
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1877
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231903

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
86.5 x 110.5 cm (34 1/16 x 43 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. Johannes A. Oertel/ 1877, N.Y.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by William Hayes Fogg, New York; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.693
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • J.F. Oertel, A Vision Realized: A Life Story of Rev. J.A. Oertel, D.D., Artist, Priest, Missionary (Milwaukee, WI, 1917), pp. 131-32
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 358-61, cat. 326

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