Aaron Converting His Staff into a Serpent
c. 1860s
Artist, American, 1803 - 1889
Artwork overview
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Medium
ink and graphite with gouache on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
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Dimensions
sheet: 24.45 × 15.88 cm (9 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.725
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Victor Spark, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1976
Robert Weir: Artist and Teacher of West Point, Cadet Fine Arts Forum, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1976, p. 33, no. 43, 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. 6, no. 43.
Inscriptions
lower right in brown ink: R. W. Weir
Wikidata ID
Q64629201