Study for "Commerce"
c. 1885
Artist, American, 1835 - 1910
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Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper mounted to paperboard
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
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Dimensions
image: 19.84 × 33.34 cm (7 13/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
board: 24.77 × 37.78 cm (9 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.743
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
1975
American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1975-1977, pp. 80-81, fig. 116, repro
1983
Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 15
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. 76, no. 474.
1984
La Farge, Henry A. "John La Farge's Work in the Vanderbilt Houses." American Art Journal 16, no. 4 (Autumn 1984): p. 38, fig. 12.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite by unknown hand: Stair; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: John La Farge; center right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 7A [circled]; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: E3
Wikidata ID
Q64582832