Dragoon with His Charger
c. 1830-1840
Artist, American, 1813 - 1857
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Claude J. Ranney, grandson of the artist)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 10.16 × 14.29 cm (4 × 5 5/8 in.)
sheet: 12.38 × 16.51 cm (4 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.977
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Claude J. Ranney (grandson of the artist), Malvern, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1960; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1962
William Ranney, Painter of the Early West, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, 1962-1963, p. 50, no. 124, repro
1991
William Tylee Ranney: East of the Mississippi, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1991-1992, p. 80, no. 34, repro
2006
William Ranney: An American Artist, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 2006-2007, pp. 188-189, no. D11, 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. 30, no. 216.
Inscriptions
lower center in graphite by unknown hand: Lawton!; lower right in graphite: R; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 27 [circled]; left center verso in graphite by unknown hand: by / Wm T Ranney A.N.A. / 1813-1859
Wikidata ID
Q64639765