Boy Reading

c. 1850s

William Sidney Mount

Artist, American, 1807 - 1868

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert McIntyre, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1947; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

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. 7, no. 48.

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink: Boy Reading - / Dark Ground / Figures must be my study.; lower center in graphite [inverted]: Boy sitting in a chair laughing

Wikidata ID

Q64639443

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