Harvard Art Museums > 1965.309: A Suit of Armor Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"A Suit of Armor (Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier) , 1965.309,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/296449. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1965.309 People Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French (Lyons 1815 - 1891 Paris) Title A Suit of Armor Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 19th century Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/296449 Physical Descriptions Medium Black ink, gray wash, and gouache on off-white wove paper, slightly darkened Dimensions sight: 22.6 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Jay Gould. [Duveen] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, by 1927, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs Accession Year 1965 Object Number 1965.309 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1929), p. 33, no. 97 Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 711, fig. 380 Philippe Durey, ed., Ernest Meissonier: Rétrospective, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Lyon, France, 1993), under no. 19 Exhibition History French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929 Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943 Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
