Harvard Art Museums > 1999.21: Standing Male Nude Holding a Staff Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Standing Male Nude Holding a Staff (Charles-Antoine Coypel) , 1999.21,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/293542. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.21 People Charles-Antoine Coypel, French (Paris 1694 - 1752 Paris) Title Standing Male Nude Holding a Staff Other Titles Alternate Title: Male Nude (study for Hercules in "Hercules Returns Alcestis from Hades to Her Husband Admetus") Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1750 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/293542 Physical Descriptions Medium Black chalk with touches of red chalk and traces of white chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, decorated with dark blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face Dimensions 43.5 × 26 cm (17 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks watermark: none visible--laid down inscription: none Provenance Recorded Ownership History The artist’s estate; Coypel family, by descent; Galerie de Bayser, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (inv. no. D-F-445), gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1999.21 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.21 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. 90, pp. 197, 368, 414 Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Esther Bell, and Françoise Joulie, Genius & Grace: François Boucher and the Generation of 1700, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (Boston, 2014), pp. 38-39, 42 Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 238-239, repr. p. 238 as fig. 3 Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 60, repr. Exhibition History HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
