Boy on a Raft, 1879

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 19.37 × 32.39 cm (7 5/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2014, Vol. III, no. 807

Accession Number

2014.18.21

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

in watercolor, lower left: HOMER '79; in graphite, on verso: [unknown hand] 68 / White mat - no gilt - edge / show three inches / 1 1/2 [illegible] [diagram of frame moulding]; lower center: 14 x 18 3/4

Provenance

Hamilton Cole, New York, c.1880; the Misses Cole, New York, his sisters, by bequest, c 1889; Marie Torrey Copp, New London, CT, their great-niece, by bequest, 1925; private collection, c 1955; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; Bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Bibliography

2005: Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. 3. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005, p. 231, no. 807.