A Muse
1815/1818
Artist, American, 1775 - 1852
Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and white chalk heightened with white on pinkish-tan paper, squared for transfer
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Credit Line
Gift of the Monica and Hermen Greenberg Foundation in honor of Monica Lind Greenberg
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Dimensions
overall: 50.1 x 47 cm (19 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2006.154.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
by descent to Catherine Vanderlyn (1825-1892), his niece; Judge A. Schoonmaker; by descent to Lizzy Rioggen (Mrs. William) Laughton, his daughter; Fred Johnston (c. 1963); (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York); (Childs Gallery, Boston); purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
American Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolors, Part One: Works of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Exh. cat., Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, 1967: no. 108.
2008
Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 84.
Inscriptions
lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: CGL56119-35R
Wikidata ID
Q64584402