Study for "Dance on the Battery in Presence of Peter Stuyvesant"
c. 1838
Artist, American, 1796 - 1886

Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal with brown and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 43.18 × 68.9 cm (17 × 27 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.575
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
A.B. Durand, 1796-1886, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 1971, pp. 53, 80, no. 39, repro
1978
American Pastels from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978
1981
Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
1983
Asher B. Durand: An Engraver's and a Farmer's Art, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, 1983, p. 56, no. 67, 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. 4, no. 24.
Wikidata ID
Q64536756