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Violet Girl

1857

William Morris Hunt

Associated Names

William Morris Hunt

Artist, American, 1824 - 1879

Phillips and Sampson

Publisher

The image shows a young girl seated on a chair with her upper body visible. She is in a side-facing seated position with her hands resting on a table. She has a youthful face with a contemplative expression, a headscarf covering most of her hair, and is wearing a dark cloak with large sleeves. The table has a textured surface with a few objects placed on it. The background consists of a plain wall with a decorative element to the right.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black with tan stone tint on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958)
Dimensions

image: 24.77 × 19.69 cm (9 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
sheet: 38.26 × 31.12 cm (15 1/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.916

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Inscriptions

text at bottom on stone:
W.M. Hunt, Pinxt and del on stone

Wikidata ID

Q77013057

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