Study for "War and Peace"
c. 1836
Robert W. Weir
Artist, American, 1803 - 1889
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with wash on wove paper mounted to paperboard
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
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Dimensions
sheet: 30.48 × 22.38 cm (12 × 8 13/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2015.19.723
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Victor Spark, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1980
The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 4
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. 6, no. 39.
Inscriptions
lower right support in black ink: R.W.W.
Wikidata ID
Q64629199