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Painting of three men, in various states of distress, looking uneasily off to the right.

Painting of three men, from the shoulder up, looking off towards the right. Each man has a worried or distressed expression on his face. The man to the left has dark, spiked, cropped hair with long sideburns. He stares open-mouthed to the left with a furrowed brow. In the middle, the second man wears a red wrap on his head as he anxiously chews on his fingernail. The man to the right wears a dark-brown, triangular hat along with a blue and beige garment. He gazes worriedly over his shoulder.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.193
People
Antoine-Jean Gros, French (Paris 1771 - 1835 Meudon)
Title
Three Male Heads, Study for "The Capitulation of Madrid, December 4, 1808"
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1810
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370171

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
53.8 × 65.2 cm (21 3/16 × 25 11/16 in.)
frame: 83.2 × 96.5 cm (32 3/4 × 38 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back of canvas: Etudes militaires / par Mr le baron Gros / no 40 [per old photograph; now relined]
  • label: back of frame: 3247

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ary Leblond, Paris (1880-1958). [Galerie Lorenceau, Paris] sold; to [Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York] June 16, 1954, sold; to Arthur K. Solomon, June 1, 1955; The Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Trust, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.193
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835): Painter of Battles; The First Romantic Painter, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1955), cat. no. 12, repr.
  • Arthur K. Solomon, Marjorie B. Cohn, Angela Creager, and Robert Köhler, Arthur Kaskel Solomon: Transcripts of Interviews Sponsored by the Oral History Committee, Harvard Medical School, 1993-1995 (Boston, 1997), pp. 432-433

Exhibition History

  • Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835): Painter of Battles; The First Romantic Painter, Jacques Seligmann & Co., 11/15/1955 - 12/10/1955; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 01/04/1956 - 01/31/1956; Cleveland Museum of Art, 03/08/1956 - 04/15/1956

Verification Level

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