2011.32: Joseph-Henri de Bombelles, Comte de La Motte-Saint-Lié, in the Tuileries Gardens
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.32
- People
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Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, French (Paris 1717 - 1806 Paris)
- Title
- Joseph-Henri de Bombelles, Comte de La Motte-Saint-Lié, in the Tuileries Gardens
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1765
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/337521
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, black and red chalk, and white gouache on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black and brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 18 cm (12 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: mount: J. Honig & Zoonen
- inscription: mount, dated, lower center, brown ink: Mr. ["r." in superscript] Le Baron de Bombelles, Capitaine aux gardes françaises. / 1765.
- inscription: verso of mount, bottom center, brown ink: Bon. de Bombelles capn. aux garde. françaises / carmontel delin. 1765
- inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: a
- inscription: mount, verso, lower left, brown ink: 243
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- The artist’s estate; his estate sale, Paris, 17 April 1807, lot 22; Chevalier Richard de Lédans, Paris; his sale, 3 November 1816; Pierre de la Mésangère, Paris; his sale, 18 July 1831, part of lot 304, sold; to John Duff, bequest; to Duff family, by descent; sale, Christie’s, London, 15 December 1992, lot 182; Galerie Terrades, Paris, sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2011, 2011.32
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund, Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, and purchase through the generosity of Virgilia Klein and the Bunge North America Foundation
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2011.32
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Chevalier Richard de Lédans, "Catalogue des portraits dessinés et peints par Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle" (unpublished manuscript, 1807)., cat. no. 396, p. 94
- 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. 75, repr., p. 261
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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