Miss Raymond, 1783

Not on View

Medium

pastel on cream laid paper, mounted to canvas (on stretcher)

Dimensions

overall: 60.4 x 44.3 cm (23 3/4 x 17 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ellen F. Karpf and New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Jeffares (online): no. J.64.2391

Accession Number

2004.20.1

Artists / Makers

John Russell (artist) British, 1745 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

left center in pastel: J. Russell pt. / 1783

Provenance

Charles J. Wertheimer [1842-1911], London. Louis (or Léopold) Hirsch, Paris. Charles J. Wertheimer. (sale, Paris, Galliera, Objets du xviiie siècle appartenant à Divers Amateurs..., Paris, 14 March 1964, no. 3, reproduced plate II, 3). (Bernheimer, Munich); purchased by NGA 2004.

Associated Names

Bernheimer Fine Arts Ltd.
Hirsch, Leopold
Wertheimer, Charles J.

Exhibition History

2004: Pastels of the Eighteenth Century: Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 2004, no cat.

Bibliography

n.d.: Neil Jeffares, "John Russell." Dictionary of pastellists before 1800. London, 2006; online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Russell3.pdf], accessed 16 July 2018: no.J.64.2391

1894: Williamson, G. C. John Russell, R.A.. London, 1894: 173.

2006: Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London, 2006: 462

2010: Dorange, Camille. "John Russell (1745 - 1806) et la France." British Art Journal. 10 (2009/2010): no. 9.