Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor, pen, and ink on silk
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 38.4 x 29.2 cm (15 1/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
framed: 41.4 x 35.2 cm (16 5/16 x 13 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1953.5.46
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Recorded as from New York. Purchased in 1948 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1992
Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 542-543, repro. 542.
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 412, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: Maria's Portrait Reader here's design'd / A gentle form a sentimental mind; lower center: MARIA.; lower right: Deep melancholy on her Reason preys / While over Rocks and Deserts oft she strays
Wikidata ID
Q20179816