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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.377
People
Charles Parrocel, French (Paris 1688 - 1752 Paris)
Title
Infantry Leader Receiving Battle Instructions from a Cavalry Officer
Other Titles
Former Title: Soldiers on the March
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294779

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, black chalk, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorative mount
Dimensions
55.4 × 41.3 cm (21 13/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
mount: 59.7 × 44.4 cm (23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, in brown ink: C. Paroscel
  • collector's mark: verso of mount, center and lower right, stamped in purple ink: mark of Baron Doctor Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey, London, Rome, and Jersey
  • inscription: on mount, lower center, in graphite: 320
  • label: on label adhered to verso of mount, lower right, typed, with accents handwritten in blue ink: C. Paroscel / Un général accompagné d'un port-étendard, également à cheval, parlant / aux soldats. à la plume au lavis d'encre chine signé: C. Paros/cel / Collection Lannoy No 950
  • label: handwritten on label adhered to verso of mount, lower right, in blue ink: 492
  • inscription: verso of mount, center, immediately above collector's mark, in black ink: Coll. / Baron
  • inscription: verso of mount, center, in graphite: 114
  • inscription: on mount, lower left, in graphite: fr.-
  • inscription: on mount, lower center, in purple ink: 14.2
  • inscription: on mount, lower center, in graphite (very faint): No 6[?]
  • inscription: on mount, lower right, in graphite: 11 £ [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lannoy Collection. Baron Doctor Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984), London, Rome, and Jersey, by descent; to Ver Heyden de Lancey family. [Colnaghi, London, by 1986]. Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1986, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey Horvitz in honor of Alvin L. Clark, Jr.
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.377
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), p. 426, appendix, no. 275
  • 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. 58, repr.

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