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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.163
People
Gabriel-François Doyen, French (Paris 1726 - 1806 St. Petersburg)
Title
Saint Gregory the Great Called to the Papacy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294152

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Two tones of red chalk heightened with white chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in red chalk
Dimensions
53.2 × 40.5 cm (20 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, black chalk: doyen
  • watermark: PRICX
  • inscription: signed, lower left, black chalk: doyen
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: [illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sale, Drouot (Ader-Tajan), Paris, 27 June 1992, lot 315; W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund, inv. no. 1993.163

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.163
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 83, repr.

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000

Verification Level

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