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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.472
People
Unidentified Artist
Possibly by Louis-Félix de La Rue, French (Paris 1731 - 1765 Paris)
Title
Putto Flying Through Clouds
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
British?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299279

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and brown and buff wash on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
10.8 x 14 cm (4 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: old mount: Gilmor Col. Baltimore. Gilmore was father of the Rebel officer of that [?] and who travelled over Europe in the time of the French Revolution collecting the drawings and Engravings thrown upon the market. The whole was dispersed at his death. Mr. Chandler of Salem went to Baltimore to buy the drawings most which he sold to me. JWR

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.472
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, p. 166 (note 29, p. 168)

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