A Chandelier with the Virgin Mary Holding the Christ Child

1840s/1850s

Sir Frederic William Burton

Artist, Irish,1816 - 1900

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor over graphite, heightened with white, on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 29.7 x 25 cm (11 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(J.S. Maas & Co., Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1973-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Bibliography

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, cat 80.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: FWB; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: PW[I?]

Wikidata ID

Q64631900

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