Object number2011.10

Saint Joseph

Daten.d.

Artist Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Hesse (French, 1806-1879)

CultureFrench

MediumBlack, red and white chalk on light brown paper

DimensionsSheet: 17 11/16 × 14 3/16 in. (45 × 36 cm)
Matted: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Suzette Morton Davidson, class of 1934, Fund

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

BibliographyAubrun, Marie-Madeleine, Alexandre Hesse 1806-1879: Quelques aspects du portraitiste et du dessinateur, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1979, unpaginated, no. 31.; Clarke, Michael, Poussin to Seurat: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland, exhibition catalogue, London and Edinburgh, 2010-2011, p. 76 under no. 33. ProvenanceGalerie Pierre Gaubert, Paris, 1979; acquired from them by Jacques Giarard, Lyon c. 1979.

Vassar Exhibitions

Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper

An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions

Exhibition HistoryParis, Galerie Pierre Gaubert, Alexandre Hesse 1806-1879; Quelques aspects du portraitiste et du dessinateur, April-May 1979, no. 31.

Pougheepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Recent Acquistions: Works on Paper," January 18 - March 30, 2013.

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