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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H175
People
Fritz Züber-Bühler, Swiss (Le Locle, Switzerland 1822 - 1896 Paris, France)
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Swiss (1807-1873)
Title
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1844
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311223

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
152.4 × 110.5 cm (60 × 43 1/2 in.)
185.4 × 135.9 × 17.8 cm (73 × 53 1/2 × 7 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: F. Zuberbuhler/1844

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of G. R. Agassiz, Max Agassiz, and R. L. Agassiz, 1910.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of G. R. Agassiz, Max Agassiz, and R. L. Agassiz, 1910
Object Number
H175
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 10, ill. p. 11
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), pp. 66-67, 81-82, cat. 71, ill.
  • 1846: Portrait of the Nation, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1995)
  • Frank J. Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, Pantheon Books (New York, NY, 1996), p.
  • Jean-Daniel Blant, Louis Favre, 1822-1904, Temoin de son temps, Imprimerie Gasser SA (Switzerland, 2004), ill. p. 29
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 276

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Consulate of Switzerland, 1921, Consulate of Switzerland, New York, 10/31/1921 - 12/19/1921
  • Early Science at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1969 - 02/01/1970
  • The Lazzaroni, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 12/26/1972 - 05/30/1973

Verification Level

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