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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.9
People
Jean-François-Pierre Peyron, French (Aix-en-Provence 1744 - 1814 Paris)
Title
Lucius Sergius Catalina Inciting Insurrection
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294027

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray-brown wash over traces of graphite and white gouache on cream laid paper, framing line in brownish black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
25.5 x 18.9 cm (10 1/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, black ink: Peyron inv.
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marcel Puech, Avignon, sold; through [Christie's, Monaco, July 2, 1993, lot 86 (as "Assembly of Early Christians"), sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 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
1999.9
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre Rosenberg and Udolpho van de Sandt, Pierre Peyron (1744-1814), Arthena (Paris, France, 1983), cat. no. 146-D, pp. 136-37
  • Alain Mérot and Sophie Raux-Carpentier, "Academicism and Anti-Academicism: Drawing in France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", Mastery and Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings,, ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 24-51, p. 44 and fig. 33, p. 47
  • 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.285, p. 427
  • Jeffrey Fontana, Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Necoclassical Drawing, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist no. 36, fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/07/1999 - 10/31/1999

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