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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.265
People
Gustave Moreau, French (Paris 1826 - 1898 Paris)
Title
Saint Sebastian and the Angel
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Saint Sébastien Baptisé
Martyr
Alternate Title: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian /
Saint Sebastian
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1876
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
69.53 x 39.69 cm (27 3/8 x 15 5/8 in.)
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Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: l.r.: -Gustave Moreaulabel: back of frame, paper: 9258
label: back of frame, paper: 8342 [crossed off]
label: back of frame, paper: 2394 [crossed off]
label: back of frame, paper: 5854 [crossed off]
Provenance
Lepel-Cointet[?].
Allard et Noël.
A. Baillehache, 1906, Estate sold at Drouot, Paris, 1922.
Sale at Drouot brought 7000 ff.; object was no. 38
Dubourg, Paris, Sold to Winthrop through Birnbaum,
1927.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased from Dubourg,
dealer in Paris, 1927, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum,
1943. Purchased through Birnbaum; Winthrop paid
37,500 ff = c. $1600
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.265
Division
European and American Art
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Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Judith Gautier, [Unidentified article], Le Rappel (May 6
1876)
Exposition Gustave Moreau au profit des oeuvres du
travail et des pauvres honteux, exh. cat., Galerie
Georges Petit (Paris, France, 1906), cat. no. 4
Fritz Novotny, Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780
to 1880, Penguin Books (Baltimore, MD, 1960), repr. pl.
151A
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: with a
catalogue of the finished paintings watercolors, and
drawings, New York Graphic Society (Boston, MA,
1976), cat. no. 165, pp. 323-324; repr. b/w . pp. 129,
324; text pp. 126, 128, 139
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. 121; repr. as no. 322
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gustave
Moreau, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1991), no. 189, p.
98 and color plate XXIV
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Flammarion
(Paris, France, 1994), pp. 110, 132; repr. p. 133
Gustave Moreau: Gyusutavu Moro, exh. cat., Nihon
Hoso Kyokai (Tokyo, Japan, 1995), p. 148, repr. in b/w
Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898 ,
exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France,
1998), under no. 68, n. 1
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Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: Monographie et
nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé, ACR Édition
(Paris, France, 1998), no. 191, repr. with original frame;
repr. in color, p. 75
Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau: between Epic
and Dream , exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago
(Chicago, IL, 1999), under no. 68, n. 1
Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams:
Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the
Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , exh. cat.,
National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, Japan, 2002),
pp. 118-119, cat. #25, repr.; repr. p. 46 as fig. 19
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), repr. in color p. 33, as fig. 32
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), repr. in color
p. 41, as fig. 31
"Symbolist Saints", Christie's Magazine (June 2005August 2005), vol. XXII, no. 4, pp. 61-62, p. 62
19th Century European Art Including Ottomans &
Orientalists, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London,
England, June 15 2005), repr. in b/w as fig. 1 under no.
118, p. 100
Exhibition History
Annual Exhibition, 1876, Salon, Paris, Paris, 01/01/1876
- 12/31/1876
Exposition Gustave Moreau au profit des oeuvres du
travail et des pauvres honteux, Galerie Georges Petit,
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Paris, 01/01/1906 - 12/31/1906
Moreau and Monticelli, Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Cambridge, 05/13/1960 - 06/08/1960
Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the
Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century
British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of
the Fogg Art Museum , National Museum of Western
Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
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
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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