Study for "Christ Appearing to Mary"

1877-1878

John La Farge

Artist, American, 1835 - 1910

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Weyhe Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2025

  • The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024-2025, p. 133, cat. 46, repro.

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. 75, no. 473.

2024

  • Mitchell, Mark DeSaussure.The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917. Exh cat. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024: cat. 46, 135, color repro.

Markings

stamped lower right in red ink: [the artist's Japanese characters]

Watermarks

None

Wikidata ID

Q64582829


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