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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.85
People
Rodolphe Bresdin, French (La Fresne, France 1822 - 1885 Sèvres, France)
Title
Kneeling Woman Reading a Book
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293628

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 7 x 3.5 cm (2 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: l.r. of mount, black ink, stamped: RB [monogram] [not in Lugt]
  • inscription: verso: l.c. of mount, graphite, inscribed: Bruikleen 81
  • inscription: mat, right of sheet, graphite, inscribed: 81

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rodolphe Bresdin. estate stamp (not in Lugt)
Paul Bresdin. artist's son
D. G. Santee Landweer, Amsterdam, 1930.
D. Loenen, Amsterdam.
Adolph Schwarz, Amsterdam-Amstelveen.
Robert M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara, CA.
Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, purchased from R.M. Light & Co., 1991, sold to HUAM, 1993. Long term loan to HUAM from June 1991 to 1993

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.85
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dirk van Gelder, Rodolphe Bresdin, Martinus Nijhoff (La Haye, 1976), vol. 1, p. 194, fig. 155
  • David P. Becker, "Reading Bresdin Reading", Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn, ed. Craigen Bowen, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), pp. 11-18, fig. 5, p. 14

Exhibition History

  • Collecting for Harvard: Works Acquired through the Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/03/1993 - 08/15/1993

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