Battle Scene | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.326
People: Louis Chéron, French (Paris 1660 - 1725 London)
Title: Battle Scene
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 17th-18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/317938

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, gray wash, and white gouache on discolored blue antique laid paper, laid down on Japan paper

Dimensions

39.6 x 56.4 cm (15 9/16 x 22 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: none
inscription: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Sale, Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 230; Galerie Mazarini, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (inv. no. D-F-713), gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, inv. no. 2006.326

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year: 2006
Object Number: 2006.326
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "A Self-Proclaimed Student of Raphael and Giulio: Louis Chéron as a Draftsman", Festschrift für Konrad Oberhuber, ed. Achim Gnann, Electa (Milan, 2000), pp. 345-51, p. 350
Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 44, repr.

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