83.2004: Medal Design, War and Peace: HOC CUSTODE SECURA

Identification and Creation

Object Number

83.2004

People

Attributed to Louis-Claude Vassé, French (Paris 1716 - 1772 Paris)
Previously attributed to Edme Bouchardon, French (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698 - 1762 Paris)

Title

Medal Design, War and Peace: HOC CUSTODE SECURA

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1764

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54449

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face

Dimensions

sight: 27.5 x 30.5 cm (10 13/16 x 12 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: around image (legend), red chalk, in artist's hand: HOC CUSTODE SECURA
• inscription: below image (exergue), red chalk, in artist's hand: EXTRAORDINAIRE DES / GUERRES / 1765
• inscription: on blue mount, brown ink: le 26 octobre 1764 remis a m / Roettier le fils le dessein

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Austin Gunnison, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Private Collector, California.
Christie's, Paris, sold to William Robinson, 2004. Sale, March 18, 2004, part of lot 110.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from William W. Robinson and Nancy E. Yocco

Object Number

83.2004

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Winslow Ames, "Bouchardon and Company", Master Drawings (Winter 1975), vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 379-400, no. 56, p. 398, pl. 43b

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