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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.590
People
Charles Le Brun, French (Paris 1619 - 1690 Paris)
Title
Minerva Assisting Louis XIV with the Presentation of an Architectural Plan to France
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295052

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, brown and gray wash, and touches of brown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite, black chalk, brown ink, and brown wash, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
34.9 × 21.7 cm (13 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, in a cartouche, lower center, black ink: Carolus / Le Brun
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper right, graphite: 17 dessin - M. Pajou
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: S4 = 40
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, black chalk: 94.1978

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Pierre Crozat, Paris; possibly his sale, Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 10 April-13 May 1741, part of lot 1010; Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (his mark, L.1852, mount, lower right); his sale, Basan, Paris, 15 November 1775-30 January 1776, possibly part of lot 1179; possibly Augustin Pajou, Paris; Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, mount, lower left); Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara (by 1978); Artemis, New York; Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund, inv. no. 1984.590

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
1984.590
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. 175
  • 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. 51, n.p.
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Laure Barthélemy-Labeeuw, Les dessins de la collection Mariette: école française, Electa (Milan, 2011), cat. no. F 2245, p. 829
  • 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. 31b, repr.

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