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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.26
People
Eustache Le Sueur, French (Paris 1616 - 1655 Paris)
Previously attributed to Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Baptism of Christ
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1647
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292960

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue laid paper strips adhered to face
Dimensions
25.5 x 20.8 cm (10 1/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink, by a later hand: Le Sueur [partially effaced]
  • inscription: mount, lower right, black ink, by a later hand: N.POUSSIN, 1593-1665
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite, by a later hand: N 1161
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite, by a later hand: No 17
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite, by a later hand: D135
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, blue ink, by a later hand: 91
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 1500 / 910615 / 9
  • inscription: lower center, graphite, by a later hand: "FRO" marque à sec pres le bas à dr.
  • stamp: lower center, mount maker's stamp: unidentified mount maker (L.1045)
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, stamp, black ink: HM [encircled] [Lugt 1343a, mark of Hubert Marignane]
  • collector's mark: lower right, brown ink: H [inside of] M [probably for Hubert de Marignane]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection, Paris. Hubert Marignane, Paris (Lugt 1343a). [Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, by 1992. [Christie's, London, July 2, 1996, lot 202] sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alain Mérot, Eustache Le Sueur, Arthena (Paris, 1987), cat. no. D. 189, pp. 224, 480, fig. 257, repr.
  • Hubert Prouté, Catalogue "Reni": Dessins, estampes anciens du XVe au XVIIIe siècle, estampes des XIXe et XXe siècles, 1992, cat. no. 16, p. 14, repr.
  • Old Master Drawings including 18th Century Italian Drawings from the Ferretti Di Castelferretto Collection, auct. cat. (London, 1996), cat. no. 202, p. 230, repr.
  • 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.221, p. 423

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