1960.168: Chateau at Pont Aven
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.168
- People
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Robert Wylie, American (Isle of Man 1839 - 1877 Pont Aven, Brittany)
- Title
- Chateau at Pont Aven
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1866
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308598
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite and white chalk on green wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 11.9 x 17.8 cm (4 11/16 x 7 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.l.: RWylie / Pontaven 1866
- inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: To Mr. Champney / from his friend
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Daniel E. Kennedy, Chestnut Hill, MA, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman Fund
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.168
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Sheet appears to have been cut from a sketchbook at its left edge.
Publication History
- Denise Delouche, Peintres de la Bretagne, Decouverte d'une Province, Klincksieck (Paris, France, 1977), p. 342
- Julia Rowland Myers, "'Sympathy for Humanity': Robert Wylie and His Paintings of Breton Life", The American Art Journal (1997), vol. XXVIII, nos. 1-2, pp. 83 - 121; reproduced, p. 85, fig. 2
Verification Level
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