Female Torso

c. 1890-1891

John La Farge

Artist, American, 1835 - 1910

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with watercolor on laid paper mounted to board

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.99 × 21.59 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.734

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Castano Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • The South Sea Paintings of John la Farge, Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 1978

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. 475.

Inscriptions

upper center verso in graphite: John La Farge

Wikidata ID

Q64582831

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