Harvard Art Museums > 2000.83: Token Design for the Royal Treasury 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"Token Design for the Royal Treasury (Edme Bouchardon) , 2000.83,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/293990. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2000.83 People Edme Bouchardon, French (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698 - 1762 Paris) Title Token Design for the Royal Treasury Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1742 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/293990 Physical Descriptions Medium Red chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face Dimensions diameter: 21.4 cm (8 7/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks watermark: none visible–drawing laid down Provenance Recorded Ownership History Cyril Humphris, London, sold at Sotheby's, New York, 1995. Sale, January 10, 1995, lot 64. Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, purchased from Sotheby's, New York, 1995, sold to HUAM, 2000, 2000. long-term loan to HUAM, 1995-2000 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Hope and Julian Edison Accession Year 2000 Object Number 2000.83 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. Descriptions Description The ark floating on the waters; just above it the dove hovers bearing the olive branch in its beak. Publication History Daniel Fearon, "An Album of Drawings: Jeton and Medal Designs by Edme Bouchardon and Other Hands", The Medal (1991), no. 19, Autumn, cat. no. D, p. 37, repr. Edouard Kopp, "Bouchardon's Drawings for Medals and 'Jetons': Making History at the Petite Académie (1737-62)", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2009), vol. 47, no. 2, Summer, pp. 191-220, pp. 197-98, 215 n. 48 Edouard Kopp, The Learned Draftsman: Edme Bouchardon, Getty Trust Publications (Los Angeles, 2017), p. 160, repr. p. 162 as fig. 117 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), p. 18 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
