A Muse, 1815/1818

Not on View

Medium

charcoal and white chalk heightened with white on pinkish-tan paper, squared for transfer

Dimensions

overall: 50.1 x 47 cm (19 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Monica and Hermen Greenberg Foundation in honor of Monica Lind Greenberg

Accession Number

2006.154.1

Artists / Makers

John Vanderlyn (artist) American, 1775 - 1852

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: CGL56119-35R

Provenance

by descent to Catherine Vanderlyn (1825-1892), his niece; Judge A. Schoonmaker; by descent to Lizzy Rioggen (Mrs. William) Laughton, his daughter; Fred Johnston (c. 1963); (Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York); (Childs Gallery, Boston); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Childs Gallery

Exhibition History

1967: American Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolors, Part One: Works of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Exh. cat., Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, 1967: no. 108.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 84.