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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.23
People
Joseph-Marie Vien, the Elder, French (Montpellier 1716 - 1809 Paris)
Title
Head of Saint Germain
Other Titles
Former Title: Head of a Bishop
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1755
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293546

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on brown card
Dimensions
Sheet: 32.9 × 31.4 cm (12 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collection, France; Michel Gierzod, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (1996); Harvard Art Museum/ Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1999.23

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.23
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), under cat. no. 74, p. 260, repr. fig. 3, cat. no. A351
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017)
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), p. 509-n.5

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/11/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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