1999.12: Mountainous Landscape with a Volcano

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.12

People

Claude-Louis Chatelet, French (Paris 1752 - 1794 Paris)

Title

Mountainous Landscape with a Volcano

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1776

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294003

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gray and black-ink wash and white opaque watercolor and traces of black chalk on blue laid paper, drum mounted to cream card

Dimensions

21.8 x 28 cm (8 9/16 x 11 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: dated, across bottom, black ink: C.B. (?) [illegible] 1776 [illegible]
• watermark:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, Ltd., London; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (inv. no. D-F-52); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, inv. no. 1999.12

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.12

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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), cat. no. A.67, p. 413
• 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), cat. no. 105, repr.

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