1943.793: The Illness of Pierrot

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.793

People

Thomas Couture, French (Senlis (Oise) 1815 - 1879 Villiers-le-Bel)

Title

The Illness of Pierrot

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297585

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black, white, and red chalk on blue paper

Dimensions

sight: 46.7 x 61.3 cm (18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
Framed: 77.5 × 87.9 cm (30 1/2 × 34 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black chalk, left edge: T.C

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.793

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), p. 31, fig. 25
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), fig. 40 (color), p. 36

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/22/2016 - 03/11/2016

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