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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1942.189
People
François Joseph Heim, French (Belfort 1787 - 1865
Paris)
Previously Théodore Chassériau, French (Ste. Barbe de
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Samana, S. America 1819 - 1856 Paris)
Title
Defeat of the Cimbri and the Teutons by Marius
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Defaite des Cimbres et des
Teutons par Marius
Original Language Title: Study for "Defaite des Cimbres
et des Teutons par Marius" / The Defeat of Cimbres and
the Teutons by Marius / Battle Between the Romans
and the Gauls / The Sabine Women
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1853
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.4 x 72.1 cm (23 3/8 x 28 3/8 in.)
framed: 78 x 90.7 x 7.6 cm (30 11/16 x 35 11/16 x 3 in.)
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Provenance
Jacques Simon, Paris; [ anonymous sale, Hotel Drouot,
Paris, June 26 1937, no. 3] [Dr. A. C. de Frey, Paris],
sold; to Louis Lion, New York, NY, (1938), sold; to
[Arnold Seligmann and Trevor and Co., London] (c.
1938-1939), sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, (1939-1942)
gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.
Notes:
Hotel Drouot sale, listed as "Bataille des Romains et
des Gaulois".
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville
L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.189
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
French Art of the Nineteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg
Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1942), p. 6
Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and
Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville
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Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum
(Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7
French Painting, 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution, exh.
cat., Musée du Louvre / Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Paris, France and New York, NY, 1975), p. 489 (p. 484
in French edition)
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. 111; repr. as no. 294
Jean-Pierre Cuzin, "François-Joseph Heim (1787-1865),
peintre d'esquisses", Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire
de l'Art francais (1992), pp. 199-217, pp. 214, 215, repr.
as fig. 33; p. 217, nos. 40-43
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), no. 48, pp. 148-149, repr. in color
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 48, pp.
155-156, repr. in color
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American
Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings,
Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826,
Yale University Press and Harvard Art Museums
(Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 27
Exhibition History
French Art of the Nineteenth Century, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1942 - 08/31/1942
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Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and
drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art : selected from the collection of
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century,
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge,
07/13/1996 - 07/21/2002
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and
Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon,
Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights
from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard
University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 04/16/2004
Subjects and Contexts
Google Art Project
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