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Head of a Young Woman

1840-1854

Seth Wells Cheney

Artist, American, 1810 - 1856

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Artwork overview

Medium

charcoal with white chalk on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams)
Dimensions

sheet: 73.66 × 54.93 cm (29 × 21 5/8 in.)
Accession

2015.19.903

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Cheney Family; Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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Bibliography

1983

Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 11, no. 73.

Wikidata ID

Q64630864

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