Musidora, 1825

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Medium

engraving in black on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 36.99 × 27.15 cm (14 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
plate: 43.02 × 30.8 cm (16 15/16 × 12 1/8 in.)

sheet: 47.15 × 33.5 cm (18 9/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Catalogue Raisonné

Hart 1895, no. 236

Accession Number

2015.19.601

Artists / Makers

Asher Brown Durand (artist) American, 1796 - 1886

Burton & Valentine (printer)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in graphite by unknown hand: proof; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: $25-

text at bottom in plate:
Designed & Engraved by A.B. Durand, New York 1825 / Musidora / with timid eye around / the banks surveying, stripp'd her beauteous limbs, / to taste the lucid coolness of the flood. / Printed by Burton & Valentine, New York / Thomson's Seasons.

Marks and Labels

stamped lower right verso in purple ink: Estate of Robert W. Weir / No. ____ [circled]

Provenance

Robert Walter Weir, New York; Estate of Robert W. Weir, New York, 1889; (The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop
Weir, Robert Walter

Bibliography

1895: Hart, Charles Henry. Catalogue of the Engraved Work of Asher B. Durand. New York: Grolier Club, 1895, p. 101, no. 236.