1993.254: A Scene at the Opera
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1993.254
- People
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Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau le jeune, French (Paris 1741 - 1814 Paris)
- Title
- A Scene at the Opera
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th-19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294014
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised; verso: rubbed with red chalk
- Dimensions
- 23.9 × 38.8 cm (9 7/16 × 15 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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George Blumenthal (1859-1941). Baroness von Wrangell. [Sotheby's, London, November 26, 1970 (as "attributed to Saint-Aubin")]. Private collection. [Christie's, London, April 20, 1993, lot 190, repr.] sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an Anonymous Donor
- Accession Year
- 1993
- Object Number
- 1993.254
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 185-186, repr. p. 186 as fig. 2
Verification Level
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