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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.10
People
Pierre-Alexandre Wille, French (Paris 1748 - 1821 Paris)
Title
Old Man Accosting a Young Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1774
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294189

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and brown wash over black chalk on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
30.7 x 25.3 cm (12 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: signed and dated, middle right, black ink, in artist's hand: P.A. Wille filius / del 1774

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Nicolas Joly at Galerie Yves Mikaeloff, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1994 (inv. no. D-F-311), 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
1999.10
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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.374, p. 433.

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