Study for "Faith" and "Hope", c. 1890

Not on View

Medium

transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on illustration board

Dimensions

image: 24.61 × 16.35 cm (9 11/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
board: 37.47 × 28.73 cm (14 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)

Accession Number

2015.19.506

Artists / Makers

John La Farge (artist) American, 1835 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in white gouache: La Farge; lower right margin in graphite by unknown hand: [not deciphered]; upper center verso in black crayon: Ret. John La Farge / 51 W. 10th St. / N.Y.; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: #4 / Packard window / Buffalo-

Marks and Labels

None

Provenance

James Parmelee, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Parmelee, James

Bibliography

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. 76, no. 477.