1926.33.166: Much Reduced Study of Distant Effect of Veronese's Picture of "The Family of Darium at the Feet of Alexander," in the National Gallery

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.33.166

People

Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Copy after Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, Italian (Verona, Italy 1528 - 1588 Venice, Italy)

Title

Much Reduced Study of Distant Effect of Veronese's Picture of "The Family of Darium at the Feet of Alexander," in the National Gallery

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1878

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306377

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

19.7 x 28.4 cm (7 3/4 x 11 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: under image, graphite: (with chief reference to chiaroscuro) / Study of distant effect of Veronese's / "Family of Darius at the Feet of Alexander" / National Gallery [with very sketchy diagram of painting]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University

Accession Year

1926

Object Number

1926.33.166

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This is a copy of Veronese's painting at the National Gallery, London.

Publication History

• Charles Herbert Moore, Catalogue, with Notes, of Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice; and of Fac-similes and Original Works to be Used as Exercises in Drawing, Belonging to the Fine Arts Department of Harvard University, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 1878), no. 5
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 252, cat. 253

Exhibition History

• Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice..., Harvard Art Club, Cambridge, 12/01/1878 - 12/31/1878

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