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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1963.68
People
Gustave Doré, French (Strasbourg 1832 - 1883 Paris)
Title
Sunset in Alsace
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1873
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312271

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
74.9 x 127.6 cm (29 1/2 x 50 1/4 in.)
framed: 79.4 x 135.6 x 4 cm (31 1/4 x 53 3/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. (in red): G. Dore/1873 (or 5 or 6)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
1963.68
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 105; repr. as no. 332
  • Robert Rosenblum and Lisa Small, Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré, ed. Eric M. Zafran, Yale University Press and Dahesh Museum of Art (New York and New Haven, 2007), p. 178 (in checklist of Gustave Doré works in North American Collections, Fogg Art Museum)

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