8.1955.71: Study of a Seated Female Nude
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.71
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Study of a Seated Female Nude
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1805 - 1806
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305554
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite and black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.8 x 40.2 cm (14 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: Conte
- exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
- Object Number
- 8.1955.71
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- William H. Gerdts, "Washington Allston and the German Romantic Classicists in Rome", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1969), vol. XXXII, no. 2, pp. 167-196, p. 186, fig. 24
- William H. Gerdts, The Great American Nude: A History in Art, Praeger Publishers (New York and Washington, DC, 1974), pp.50-51, fig. 3-9
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 229, reproduced in b/w fig. 560
- William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), p. 221
- John Wilmerding, Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1987), reproduced p. 16
Exhibition History
- Three Centuries of the American Nude, New York Cultural Center, New York, 05/09/1975 - 07/13/1975; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 08/06/1975 - 09/21/1975; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston, 10/03/1975 - 11/16/1975
Verification Level
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