Jeune Fille (à la lampe) (Young Girl by Lamplight)

1915/1919

Gwen John

Artist, British, 1876 - 1939

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal and graphite

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mimi and Sanford Feld

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.2 x 20.2 cm (9 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.143.8

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift from the artist to Vera Oumancoff, December 3, 1928; Private collection; Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York; Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Feld, Far Hills, NJ; partial gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1987

  • Langdale, Cecily. Gwen John. New Haven and London, 1987: no. 256 and pl. 69.

Inscriptions

verso of mount: Jeune fille (à la lampe) Dec. 3. 28 [note: this is the date the drawing was given to Véra Oumançoff, not the date it was executed]

Wikidata ID

Q64572820

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