DrawingsFrench17th century

Saint Helen

c. 1650

Artists

Claude VignonArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, red chalk, and brown and red-chalk wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

32.5 x 21.4 cm (12 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, lower left, black ink); Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louise Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.598

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