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Jephthah's Daughter

1780-1810

Benjamin West

Artist, American, 1738 - 1820

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Artwork overview

Medium

pen and black ink, wash, and gouache on blue wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
Dimensions

sheet: 13.18 × 19.05 cm (5 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Accession

2015.19.721.a

Study for "Jephthah's Daughter"

Benjamin West

1780

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London, England); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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Exhibition History

1981

Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

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. 1, no. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q64537256

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