Rear View of a Skeleton, 1848

Not on View

graphite and chalk on wove paper laid down to board

image (irregular): 42.39 × 36.04 cm (16 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

sheet: 48.9 × 32.07 cm (19 1/4 × 12 5/8 in.)
board: 32.07 cm (12 5/8 in.)

2015.19.2483

Daniel Huntington (artist) American, 1816 - 1906

lower right in graphite: July 6th 1848; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 1/3 / 1848 / 41

embossed on right: E JOHANNOT

(Spanierman Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Spanierman Gallery

1980: The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 7, repro

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

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. 32, no. 223.