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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.16
People
Thomas Blanchet, French (Paris 1614 - 1689 Lyon)
Title
Death of the Virgin
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293938

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over red chalk and traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper, squared in red chalk, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
15.1 x 21 cm (5 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: laid down: none visible through mount
  • inscription: old mount, lower center, brown ink: T. Blanchet.
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: PC [intertwined] [Lugt 2072, mark of Charles Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel]
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: AF [encircled] [Lugt 3627, mark of Albert Léon Victor Finot]
  • collector's mark: lower left, blue ink: CdeJ [encircled] [Lugt 4328, mark of Claudius Mathais de Jong]
  • inscription: old mount, verso, upper left, graphite: La mort de la Vierge / [illegible] catalogue par Lucie / Galacteros de Boissier / no D80 pg 437, 438 / illustration fig no. 351 / esquisse pour le tableau / [illegible] / [illegible] pg 351 / tableau [illegible]
  • inscription: old mount, verso, lower left: 57 [upside-down and underlined]
  • inscription: old mount, verso, right, graphite: Blanchet / [illegible] / Blanchet (Thomas, peinture, graveur [illegible] / Paris 1614 + Lyon 1689 / [illegible] partie pour l'italie ou il conne Poussin, Lebrun, [illegible] / Andre Sacchi. [illegible] 1639, Blanchet ètait a Lyon et Paris [illegible] / [illegible] / [illegible] / Collection du marquis de Chennevieres

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (Lugt 2072), sold [through his sale, expert P. Roblin, Paris, April 4-7, 1900, lot 28]. Sold [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 2, 1902, lot 13. Albert Léon Victor Finot, Troyes (Lugt 3627), sold [through his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 5, 1982, lot 88]. Claudius Mathias de Jonge, Paris (Lugt 4328). Private collection, France. Sold [through Hôtel Drouot, December 20, 1994, lot 30]. Michel Gierzod, Paris, by 1995, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-9, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.16
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Louis Charvet, "Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Thomas Blanchet", Réunion des sociétés des Beaux-Arts des Départements (1893), vol. 17, pp. 85-169, cat. no. 161
  • Charles-Phillippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, "Une collection de dessins d'artistes français", L'Artiste: revue de l'art contemporain (Paris, 1894), p. 179
  • Louis Charvet, "Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Thomas Blanchet", Revue du Lyonnais (1895), pp. 57-76, 156-92, 269-82, 351-69, 431-55, cat. no. 161
  • Lucie Galactéros-de Boissier, Thomas Blanchet (1614-1689), Arthena (Paris, France, 1991), cat. no. D 80, pp. 437-38, fig. 351, repr.
  • 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.15, p. 410
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, "The Marquis de Chennevières and His Collection of French Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, Summer 2000), vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 117-23, p. 123 n. 4
  • Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. 215, pp. 279-80, repr.
  • Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under L.3627

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