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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.207
People
Unidentified Artist
After Jean Le Pautre, French (1618 - 1682)
Title
Design for a Wall Decoration with the Finding of Moses; verso: Head of a Lion
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Decorative Design, with the Exposition of Moses verso: Head of a Lion
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312351

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and brown ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
Dimensions
29.5 x 19 cm (11 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
H. (?) N. Baron von Slingelandt. information from B. Weinreb
H. (?) Bosch Reitz, Laren, Netherlands (?), by descent from his great grandfather. Gt. Grandfather: H. (?) N. Baron von Slingelandt; information from B. Weinreb
B. Weinreb Limited, London, sold to Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., 1980. (Seiden & de Cuevas is now known as Vermeer Associates, Ltd)
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, purchased from B. Weinreb Limited, London, 6, sold to HUAM, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor and the Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Fund in honor of F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.207
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), p. 194, repr. p. 195 as fig. 99b (as circle of Michel Dorigny)
  • Lynda Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, Azimuth Editions Ltd. and Sir John Soane's Museum (London, 1998), p. 366

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