1949.6: Portrait of Frédéric Villot

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.6

People

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)

Title

Portrait of Frédéric Villot

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1840

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297115

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Dark gray and black chalk with some graphite and very soft charcoal or black crayon accents, scraping and extensive stumping, on cream wove paper; lightly textured

Dimensions

33.3 x 23.7 cm (13 1/8 x 9 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Artist's studio; his posthumous sale, Paris, 17-24 February 1864; A. Robaut; J. F. Gigoux; his sale, Paris, 1882; Théodore Duret; César M. de Hauke, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949, inv. no. 1949.6

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

1949.6

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 682, fig. 357
• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 28
• 19th Century French Drawings, exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, CA, 1947), no. 32 p. 29, repr.
• Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins et d'Estampes. Marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques, etc... Supplément, Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague, 1956), under no. 996 p. 147
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 47, repr.
• Carlton Lake, "A Legacy of Masterpieces: Paul Sachs's Gift to the Fogg Museum", Boston (March 1966), vol. 58, no. 3, repr. p. 24
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 84, n.p., pl. 84, repr.
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 282, p. 241, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 131, repr.
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 37 under "Stump"
• Arlette Sérullaz, Delacroix: Le Cabinet des Dessins, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1998), p. 116, repr. in color
• Klaus Schrenk, ed., Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Kehrer Verlag (Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, 2003), under cat. no. 90, fig. 90/1
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), repr. p. 267, fig. 616 [Delacroix?]
• Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under L. 996

Exhibition History

• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
• Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
• 19th century French drawings, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/08/1947 - 04/06/1947
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
• The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
• 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/08/2015 - 11/10/2015

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