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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H252
People
Philip Alexius de Laszlo, Hungarian (Budapest, Hungary 1869 - 1937)
Robert Bacon (1860-1919)
Title
Robert Bacon (1860-1919), replica of an original by Laszlo dated 1910
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1922
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
English
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299545

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
92.3 x 65 cm (36 5/16 x 25 9/16 in.)
framed: 132.1 x 88.9 x 6.7 cm (52 x 35 x 2 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: P. A. Laszlo/Paris 1910/April 23
  • label: brass plaque "ROBERT BACON, 1860-1919/ Overseer, 1889-1908, and Fellow of Harvard College, 1912-1917/ By Phillip A. Lazio".

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the Harvard College Class of 1880 to Harvard College, 1922

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard College Class of 1880 to Harvard College, 1922
Object Number
H252
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The original portrait was painted by Laszlo in Paris in 1910 where Bacon was the American ambassador. This replica was painted in the United States in 1922. Robert Bacon was a member of the Harvard Class of 1880.

Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 16

Verification Level

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