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Female Torsos [verso]

c. 1839

Seth Wells Cheney

Artist, American, 1810 - 1856

Medium

charcoal and chalk on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams)
Dimensions

sheet: 35.24 × 30.16 cm (13 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
Accession

2015.19.895.b

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Cheney Family; Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; 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. 10, no. 67.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite by unknown hand: 175

Wikidata ID

Q64630889

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