IDENTIFIERS
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id:	241906
accession number:	PD.12-2020

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 13 August 2020
updated:	Tuesday 24 May 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Two full length studies of a draped fable figure with laurel wreath headdress and veil, with a smaller drapery study in the centre. Preparatory studies for the figure of Humanity in 'The Genius of France animates the Arts, protects Humanity', commissioned to adorn one of the ceilings in the Musée Charles X rooms in the Louvre and finally executed in 1833.
title:	drawing

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Jean-Baptiste Delestre (no. 58 from his collection of drawings by baron Gros); Gaston Delestre; thence by descent; sold Artcurial, 'Gaston Delestre Collection: two centuries of family passion', sale no. 3162, 22 March 2017, lot 55 (€1,300)


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by John Vaughan Hart, 2020

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/241906





TECHNIQUES
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pen and brown ink on paper
drawing

CATEGORIES
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category: drawing

DATING
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culture:	18th Century-19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Gros, Antoine Jean, baron

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 180

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 227



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Gros, ses amis et ses élèves (Gros, his friends and pupils)