Narcissus in a Blue and White Vase, 1864

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 50.3 × 28.7 cm (19 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.), arched top

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2017.12.1

Artists / Makers

Sir Edward John Poynter (artist) British, 1836 - 1919

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in image: 18 EJP 64

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 27 June 2006, no. 25); Louis and Linda Byron, Tucson, AZ, and by descent until 2013; (sale, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, 24 September 2013, no. 337); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); (sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 2016, no. 28, unsold); (via Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Byron, Louis and Linda
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

Exhibition History

2014: One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours Dating from the 16th Century to the Present Day. Guy Peppiatt Fine Art and Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2014, no. 57 (color).

2023: Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.