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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.24
People
François Boitard, French (c. 1670 - c. 1715 The Hague)
Title
Christ Revealing the Prophets of the Old Testament to the Virgin
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1692
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293323

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on vellum
Dimensions
22.5 x 29.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, black ink: François Boitard Invent Fecit 1692
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: signed and dated, lower left, black ink: François Boitard Invent Fecit 1692

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hugo Schwart, Maidenhead, England, by descent; Thomas Williams Fine Art, Ltd., London, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-362, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, inv. no. 1999.24

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.24
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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.25, p. 410

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