1991.26: The Combat between Tancred and Clorinda: Illustration for Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1991.26

People

Laurent de La Hyre, French (Paris 1606 - 1656 Paris)

Title

The Combat between Tancred and Clorinda: Illustration for Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294622

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face, partial framing lines in black ink

Dimensions

30.2 x 42.1 cm (11 7/8 x 16 9/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise Haskell Daly Fund and through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden

Accession Year

1991

Object Number

1991.26

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "Review: Laurent La Hyre, 1606-1656: l'homme et l'oeuvre", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (1993), vol. 31, no. 2, Summer, pp. 179-84, pp. 181, 183, 184 n. 4, fig. 1, repr.
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin, ed. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes, University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, 2015), under cat. no. 101, pp. 258, 258 n. 71, fig. 1, repr.
• 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), p. 90

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