Interior with Two Figures Dressed in Antique Costume

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.16
People: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar, French (Lille, France 1762 - 1834 Rome, Italy)
Title: Interior with Two Figures Dressed in Antique Costume
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th-19th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/293813

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 20.8 x 27.2 cm (8 3/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar, bequest; to Antonio Bianchi, 1834. no. 11 in an "album factice" of 408 drawings put together by Wicar and bequeathed to his pupil, Bianchi; Margot Gordon and Marcello Aldega, New York (the album was taken apart and dispersed by Gordon-Aldega in 1995), sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Kathryn and William W. Robinson and an anonymous donor
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.16
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Margot and C. Leonard Gordon and Marcello Aldega, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar Drawings, Edizioni de Luca (Rome, Italy, 1995), no. 201, repr.

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