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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.255
People
Antoine Dieu, French (Paris 1662 - 1727 Paris)
Previously attributed to Sébastien Le Clerc the Elder, French (Metz 1637 - 1714 Paris)
Title
Venus and Adonis
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294349

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pen with black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
19.9 x 32.9 cm (7 13/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: verso, black ink: Sébastien Leclerc 1637-1714 Grd de Lairaisse
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel (L.2073)
  • collector's mark: lower left, red ink: Louis Deglatigny (L.1768a)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L.2073, lower left, black ink); his sale, Paris, Drouot (P. Roblin), possibly part of lots 290-92; Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (his mark, L.1768a, lower left, red ink); his sale, Paris, Drouot (Féral, Catroux, et Huteau), 4–5 November 1937, lot 234 (as Sébastien Le Clerc); Galerie Arnoldi–Livie, Munich (as Antoine Dieu, as of 1990); Galerie Moatti, Paris (as of 1992); Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993, inv. no. 1993.255

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.255
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Emmanuel Moatti, Moatti: dessins anciens, exh. cat., Galerie Emmanuel Moatti (Paris, 1992), cat. no. 5, n.p., repr.
  • Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), pp. 618-19 (as Sébastien Le Clerc)

Exhibition History

  • Moatti: dessins anciens, Salon du Dessin de Collection, 75008 Paris, 03/31/1992 - 04/05/1992; Galerie Emmanuel Moatti, Paris, 04/07/1992 - 05/16/1992

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