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Collector · Donor

Henry Gurdon Marquand

1819–1902 · United States

Banker, financier, philanthropist. Bought from Jules Charvet; gave to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Life and work

  1. 1881
    Bought the Charvet Collection (which included Cypriot glass and objects) and donated it to the Metropolitan Museum; five vessels (pl. 78) from it did not form part of the Cesnola Collection as acquired by the Museum.

    New YorkLightfoot 2017, pp. 15

Through their hands

2 records

Came from

Jules Charvet
Henry Gurdon Marquand

Went to

1881The Metropolitan Museum of Art
SaleGift or bequestWho objects came from and went to, as the sources record it
  1. 1881–1897

    GiftMarquand donated the Charvet Collection to the Metropolitan.

    Gave to The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew YorkLightfoot 2017, p. 14Lightfoot 2017, p. 103Picón et al. 2007, p. 475

  2. n.d.

    PurchaseMarquand bought the Charvet Collection from Charvet.

    Bought from Jules CharvetLightfoot 2017, p. 14

Connections

1 person

Sales, gifts & bequests

Objects

  • Mold-blown glass flask from the Charvet Collection, which Cesnola mistakenly identified as found by him at Idalion

    Metropolitan Museum of Art 81.10.2171881Lightfoot 2017, p. 15

Sources

  1. 1.Christopher S. Lightfoot (2017). The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Ancient Glass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  2. 2.Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot et al. (2007). Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. New York; New Haven and London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press.
  3. 3.Wikidata (2026). Henry Gurdon Marquand (Q5722324). Online
  4. 4.C. S. Lightfoot (2017). The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Ancient Glass. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.