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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P68
People
Unidentified Artist
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle (1806 - 1893)
Title
Alphonse de Candolle (1806-1893), after bronze by Hugues Bovy
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
1897
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305294

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Painted plaster
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
sight: 67.3 x 58.4 cm (26 1/2 x 23 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: side of base: Hughes Bovy 1897
  • inscription: plaque on base: “Presented to the Gray Herbarium in 1911 by his son, Dr. Casimir de Candolle”
  • (not assigned): Gray Herbarium label: “Copy of bronze by Hughes Bovy at the University of Geneva; contemporary and personal friend of Asa Gray.”

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Alphonse Candolle's son, Dr. Casimir de Candolle, to the Gray Herbarium, 1911
Object Number
P68
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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