Letter from M. Charles Clément to M. Henry Houssaye

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1965.23
People: Associated artist: Théodore Géricault, French (Rouen 1791 - 1824 Paris)
Title: Letter from M. Charles Clément to M. Henry Houssaye
Classification: Archival Material
Work Type: correspondence
Date: 1879
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/296940

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black ink on white paper
Dimensions: folded sheet: 20.5 x 13.4 cm (8 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
unfolded sheet: 20.5 x 26.8 cm (8 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
envelope: 7.1 x 11.1 cm (2 13/16 x 4 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Beaumont Newhall in honor of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year: 1965
Object Number: 1965.23
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: folded sheet with letter on three sides, and envelope

Publication History

Frances S. Jowell, "The Raft Unravelled", Apollo (May 1974), vol. 99, p. 382
Lorenz Eitner, Géricault: His Life and Work, Orbis Publishing Ltd. (London, England, 1983), p. 285, note. 195, p. 362
Sylvain Laveissière and Régis Michel, Gericault, exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1991), pp. 318-319

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