1985.50: The Arts Inviting Apelles to Retake His Brushes
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.50
- People
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François-André Vincent, French (Paris 1746 - 1816 Paris)
- Title
- The Arts Inviting Apelles to Retake His Brushes
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1815
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294746
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink and white gouache on blue laid paper prepared with brown wash, partial framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream card
- Dimensions
- 35.3 x 47.2 cm (13 7/8 x 18 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: lower left, black ink: Vincent / 1815.
- inscription: signed and dated, lower left, black ink: Vincent / 1815.
- collector's mark: verso, lower right, black ink: GS [intertwined] [Lugt 3863, mark of Germain Seligman]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Possibly Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Paris; Louis-Cantien Boivin, Boutervilliers, by descent; Henri Baderou, Rouen (by 1969); Germain Seligman, Paris and New York (his mark, L.3863, mount, verso, lower right); Lucien Goldschmidt, New York; Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund, Louise Haskell Daly Fund, and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, inv. no. 1985.50
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund, Louise Haskell Daly Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.50
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jacques Seligmann, Master Drawings, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1970), cat. no. 30
- Jean-Pierre Cuzin, François-André Vincent, 1746-1816, Galerie de Bayser (Paris, 1988), cat. no. 66, pp. 23, 78
- 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), pp. 312, 381-n.8
- Jeffrey Fontana, Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Necoclassical Drawing, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), cat. no. 43, p. 12
- Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, François-André Vincent, 1746-1816: entre Fragonard et David, Arthena (Paris, 2013), cat. no. 677 D, pp. 289, 504
- 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. 102, repr.
Exhibition History
- Master Drawings, Jacques Seligmann & Co., 10/31/1970 - 11/21/1970
- Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/07/1999 - 10/31/1999
- HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #1: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/14/2011 - 03/05/2011
- 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/05/2016 - 09/13/2016
Verification Level
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