Man in Top Hat, Smoking a Cigar

late 19th century

Robert William Vonnoh

Associated Names
Robert William Vonnoh

Artist, American, 1858 - 1933

The image displays a three-quarter length portrait of a person in profile view, with their arms crossed. The person has facial hair, wearing a high top hat that covers part of the forehead. They are dressed in a dark suit jacket and have a cigar in their mouth. The background is a textured gray surface.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Bessie Potter Vonnoh Keyes (wife of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

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. 120, no. 799.

Wikidata ID

Q64629284

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