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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.583
People
Sébastien Bourdon, French (Montpellier 1616 - 1671 Paris)
Title
Crucifixion of Saint Peter
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1643
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294621

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
21.8 x 15.4 cm (8 9/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower right, brown ink: par M. Bourdon tableau du May.
  • collector's mark: verso, lower center, black ink: GermaIn Seligman (L.3863)
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel (L.2072)
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly sale, Paris, 18 April 1803, lot 139; Antoine-François, Comte Andréossy, Paris; his sale, Paris, 13-16 April 1764, lot 748; Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L. 2072, lower left); his sale, Drouot, Paris, 4-7 April 1900, part of lot 51; Germain Seligman, New York; R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara (by 1978); Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.583

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year
1984
Object Number
1984.583
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), p. 141
  • John Richardson, ed., The Collection of Germain Seligman: Paintings, Drawings and Works of Art, E. V. Thaw & Co., Artemis S.A., and David Carritt Ltd. (New York, Luxembourg, and London, 1979), cat. no. 6, n.p.
  • Charles-Phillippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, “Une collection de dessins d’artistes français”, L'Artiste, L'Artiste (Paris, 1984-1987), p. 29
  • Brigitte Scart, Dessins français du XVIIe siècle, exh. cat., ed. Roseline Bacou, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1984-1985), p. 101
  • Emmanuelle Brugerolles, Les dessins de la collection Armand-Valton: la donation d’un grand collectionneur du XIXe siècle à l’École des Beaux-Arts, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1984), pp. 223, 278
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), p. 182
  • Jacques Thuillier and Corinne Maisant, Sébastien Bourdon, 1616-1671: catalogue critique et chronologique de l’oeuvre complet, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 2000), cat. 75-II-l, pp. 48, 52, 215
  • Emmanuelle Brugerolles and David Guillet, ed., Poussin, Claude, and Their World: Seventeenth-Century French Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and The Frick Collection (Paris and New York, 2001-2002), p. 278
  • Heinz Widauer, "Sébastian Bourdon : sa vie artistique à la lumière de quelques dessins", Dessins français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Rencontres de l'Ecole du Louvre, ed. Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, École du Louvre (Paris, 2003), vol. 17, pp. 153-54
  • Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. 679, pp. 149, 395
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2013), pp. 342-43, 649
  • Diederik Bakhuÿs, Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, and Elodie Vaysse, L'œil & la main: chefs-d'œuvre du dessin français des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Rouen, 2019), pp. 28-29
  • 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. 16, repr.

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