DrawingsFrench18th-19th century

Study for the Figure of Saint Anthony in "Christ Risen with Saints Anthony and James the Greater"

c. 1820

Artists

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph WicarArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk on light tan wove paper, squared in black chalk

Culture

French

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

35.6 × 17.6 cm (14 × 6 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar, bequeathed to Antonio Bianchi, 1834. no. 361 in an "album factice" of 408 drawings put together by Wicar and bequeathed to his pupil Antonio Bianchi. Antonio Bianchi, acquired from Wicar, 1834. Margot Gordon and Marcello Aldega, New York, sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995. The album was taken apart and dispersed by Gordon-Aldega in 1995.

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