1957.12.15: Rinceaux

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1957.12.15

People

Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French (Rouen 1735 - 1802 Paris)

Title

Rinceaux

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1782

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297364

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on blue antique laid paper

Dimensions

35.1 x 15.8 cm (13 13/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Letters (heart shape) PLG(illeg)ON FIN / AUVERGNE 1742
  
  
  
  (Note 1742 is a very common date for this watermark and its variants)
• inscription: dated, center, brown ink: Le Reynieres, 1782 [underlined] / L.P. [underlined]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Slatkin, 1957.12.15

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Slatkin

Accession Year

1957

Object Number

1957.12.15

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 264, repr. p. 263 as fig. 5
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 97, repr.

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