H174: Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H174
- People
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Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, French (Tournan-en-Brie, France 1836 - 1912 Paris, France)
Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910)
- Title
- Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1901
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/310951
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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sight: 148.2 × 100.5 cm (58 3/8 × 39 9/16 in.)
Frame: 192.4 × 146.1 × 16.5 cm (75 3/4 × 57 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: Jules LeFebvre/Paris-1901.
- inscription: On bronze tablet: "Alexander Agassiz. This memorial of his great service to science and the University given by his friends is placed here by special vote of the Presidents and Fellows and the Board of Overseers."
- inscription: u.l., : Alexandre AGASSIZ; u.r. :MDCCCCI
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Painted at the request of the Corporation of Harvard College; Gift of members of the Board of Overseers and friends to Harvard University, 1902.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of members of the Board of Overseers and friends to Harvard University, 1902
- Object Number
- H174
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- [Unidentified article], The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, December 1903), vol. XII, p. 213, ill.
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 9-10
Verification Level
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