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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1948.80
People
Copy after Jean-Joseph Taillasson, French (1745 - 1809)
Title
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus; verso: Sketch of the same composition
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297357

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on heavy white wove paper; verso: black chalk
Dimensions
48 x 59 cm (18 7/8 x 23 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David McKibben
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
1948.80
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Le port des lumières: La peinture à Bordeaux 1750-1800, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux/William Blake & Co. Edit. (Bordeaux, 1989), pp. 295, 296, 297, under no. 106
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 310, repr.

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