8.1955.182: Saint Cecilia, after Raphael
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.182
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Saint Cecilia, after Raphael
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Sketch after the Head of St. Cecilia
Former Title: Half-Length Study of a Woman with Braided Hair and Ornamental Collar - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1831
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305664
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 13 x 7.4 cm (5 1/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: verso, paper: 251
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
- 8.1955.182
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 206B, reproduced in b/w fig. 523
- Diana J. Strazdes, "Washington Allston's 'Beatrice'", Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1994), vol. 6, pp. 63-75, p. 67, fig. 5
Verification Level
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