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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.218
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People
Théodore Chassériau, French (Ste. Barbe de Samana,
S. America 1819 - 1856 Paris)
Title
Portrait of a Young Woman with Pearl Necklaces
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Portrait de Jeune Femme aux
Colliers de Perles
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1841
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
79.38 x 65.41 cm (31 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: c.r: T. Chassieriau, 1841
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Provenance
Duc de Trévise, 1931, sold; [his sale, Galerie
Charpentier, Paris, May 19, 1938, no. 21]; to Grenville L.
Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Léonce Bénédite gives duc de Trevise as owner in 1931
catalogue.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.218
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Léonce Bénédite, Théodore Chassériau, sa vie et son
oeuvre, Braun et Cie (Paris, France, 1931), vol. I, p. 131,
repr.
Duc de Trevise collection sale, auct. cat. (Paris, France,
May 19, 1938), no. 21, repr.
Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chassériau,
exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), p.
17
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Marc Sandoz, Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856:
catalogue raisonné des peintures et estampes, Arts et
Metiers Graphiques (Paris, France, 1974), no. 88, pl.
LXXI
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900
in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue
including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum ,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1990), p. 102; repr. as no. 282
Exhibition History
Between the Empires: Gericault, Delacroix, Chasseriau-Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
France and the Portrait, 1799-1870, Harvard University
Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/03/1994 - 01/29/2002
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of European and American Art at
[email protected]
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