1948.80: Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus; verso: Sketch of the same composition
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1948.80
- People
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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
- Permissions
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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.
Verification Level
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