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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.32
People
Gustave Doré, French (Strasbourg 1832 - 1883 Paris)
Title
Christ Nailed to the Cross
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295523

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on cream modern laid paper
Dimensions
13 x 20.6 cm (5 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, graphite: G. Doré
  • inscription: lower center, graphite: EF

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Paul Prouté, Paris (?-1966), sold]; to Paul J. Haldeman, Brookline, MA (1966-1979), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Haldeman
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.32
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert Rosenblum and Lisa Small, Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré, ed. Eric M. Zafran, Yale University Press and Dahesh Museum of Art (New York and New Haven, 2007), p. 179 (in checklist of Gustave Doré works in North American Collections, Fogg Art Museum)

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