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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.585
People
Laurent de La Hyre, French (Paris 1606 - 1656 Paris)
Title
Saint Germain Distributing Alms
Other Titles
Former Title: Bishop Helping the Sick
Original Language Title: Eveque Secourant des Malades
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1630
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295049

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray-brown wash on cream antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash
Dimensions
26.7 x 20 cm (10 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Close to Gaudriault 4082, 4084, 4158, and 4213 [two fleurettes and initials in an oblong enclosure]
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: Flury-Hérard (L.1015)
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel (L.2072)
  • collector's mark: lower left, red ink: Louis Deglatigny (L.1768a)
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: Germain Seligman (L.3863)
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 530 [encircled]
  • inscription: old mount, lower right, black ink: LA HYRE
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 89.1978

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon de Fabregoules, Aix-en-Provence; possibly Charles Joseph Bathélémi Giraud, Aix-en-Provence; Paul(?) Flury-Hérard (his mark, L.1015, lower left, with his no. 595); his sale, Drouot (Delbergue-Cormont), Paris, 13-15 May 1861, lot 194; Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L.2072, lower left); his sale, Drouot (Chevallier), Paris, 4-7 April 1900, part of lot 262; Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (his mark, L.1768a, lower left); his sale, Drouot (Féral, Catroux et Huteau), Paris, 4-5 November 1937, part of lot 221; Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, lower left); Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.585

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
1984.585
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Walter F. Friedländer, Exhibition of French Seventeenth Century Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1953), cat. no. 11, p. 23
  • 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. 172
  • 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. 42, n.p.
  • Charles-Phillippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, “Une collection de dessins d’artistes français”, L'Artiste, L'Artiste (Paris, 1984-1987), p. 261
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Jacques Thuillier, Laurent de La Hyre, 1606-1656, Galerie de Bayser (Paris, 1985), cat. no. 9, n.p.
  • 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), cat. no. 84, pp.168-69
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Jacques Thuillier, Laurent de La Hyre, 1606-1656: l’homme et l’oeuvre, exh. cat., Skira (Geneva, 1989), cat. no. 64, p. 157 (with incorrect inventory number)
  • 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, p. 180 (with incorrect title)
  • Eckhart Knab and Heinz Widauer, Die Zeichnungen der Französichen Schule von Clouet bis Le Brun, Albertina (Vienna, 1993), p. 542
  • Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. 664, pp. 391, 761
  • 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. 27, note 9, p. 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. 10, repr., p. 54

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Seventeenth Century French Paintings and Drawings, Jacques Seligmann & Co., 11/23/1953 - 12/12/1953
  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990
  • Collecting for Harvard: Works Acquired through the Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/03/1993 - 08/15/1993

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