Incantation Scene from "Der Freischutz"

Robert Caney

Artist, British, 1847 - 1911

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16.5 x 22.3 cm (6 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.78.a

Associated Artworks

An Exotic Locale with Palm Trees, Tents, and Canopies

Robert Caney

1552


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

probably Miss Dinah Caney (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1973, part of lot 299); (bought by Christopher Powney); Finchden Manor, Tenterden, Kent; Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1977; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 168 (color)(recto only).

Inscriptions

by artist, center in pen and black ink: incantation Scene / Der Freischutz

Wikidata ID

Q64628863


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