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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.195
People
Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune, French (Paris 1715 - 1790 Paris)
Title
Reason, Disguised as Fable, Chastises the Ridicules and Crushes the Vices
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Raison, sous le masque de la Fable, châtie les Ridicules et foudroie les Vices
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1773
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356460

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
20.8 × 12.7 cm (8 3/16 × 5 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: below image, red chalk: La Raison sous le gousque de la Fable châtie les Ridicules et foudroye les Vices. C.N. Cochin, delin 1773.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dreyfus de Gonzalès, sold [through his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 8, 1896, no. 63]. Sold through [Millon & Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, December 11, 2009, lot 71]. [Galerie Terrades, Paris, France], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.195
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens et Modernes..., auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, June 8, 1896), p. 52, lot 63
  • Christian Michel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe siècle: avec un catalogue raisonné des livres illustrés par Cochin, 1735-1790, Librairie Droz (Geneva, 1987), p. 310, cat. no. 150
  • Dessins anciens et modernes: Collection de Monsieur B. et à divers, auct. cat., Millon & Cornette de Saint Cyr (Paris, December 11, 2009), p. 26, lot 71
  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 101-103, repr. p. 101 (detail) and p. 103 as fig. 1

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