Head of a Spanish Monk

1832/1834

John Frederick Lewis

Artist, British, 1805 - 1876

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and chalk over graphite, heightened with gouache, on buff wove paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.9 × 204 cm (10 3/16 × 80 5/16 in.)
    mount: 35 × 29.6 cm (13 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.49.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1999, no. 99). (Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, London); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: JFL

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