1999.27: Death of Sophonisba

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.27

People

Joseph II Cellony, French (Aix-en-Provence 1730 - 1786 Aix-en-Provence)
Previously attributed to Charles-Antoine Coypel, French (Paris 1694 - 1752 Paris)

Title

Death of Sophonisba

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/292914

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink, brown and gray wash, and white gouache over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, pricked for transfer around oval framing lines in black ink

Dimensions

35.5 x 25.4 cm (14 x 10 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: bottom left, black ink: Coypel f.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Daniel Katz, London, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1996, inv. no. D-F-420, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999, inv. no. 1999.27

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.27

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), cat. no. A.61, p. 413

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