A Young Benedictine Monk Kneeling
after 1824
Artist, Swiss, 1801 - 1884

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 43.5 x 40 cm (17 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2009.70.13.a
Associated Artworks

A Young Priest Kneeling
Jean Leonard Lugardon
1845
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jean Léonard Lugardon [1801-1844], Paris and Geneva (Lugt 1486b); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2012
The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 114-115, no. 46 (entry by Daniella Berman).
Inscriptions
by later hand, upper left in graphite (on hinge): p. 54; by later hand, lower left in graphite: K (reversed); by later hand, lower left in graphite: (not deciphered); by later hand, lower left in graphite: #4259
Watermarks
shell and PM initials
Wikidata ID
Q64581024