Portrait of the Architect François-Désiré Girard de Bury
1808
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Dimensions
13.3 x 7.9 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.) frame: 37.9 x 33 x 4.4 cm (14 15/16 x 13 x 1 3/4 in.)
Provenance
The drawing was included in an album (now at the Harvard Art Museums, 1965.21) assembled by Achille Leclère (Rome and Paris); his heirs. Madame Fassier, sold; to [Claude Darton, Avignon] sold; to [Lucien Goldschmidt, New York] sold; to Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan; the drawing was removed from the album and sold; to [Eugene V. Thaw, New York] sold; to Rosalynd C. Pflaum, Minneapolis, sold [Christie's, New York, January 29, 2015, lot 127]; to Harvard Art Museums and Emily Pulitzer, 2015
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