Inscription
the artist's inscriptions are in Gurney shorthand; upper left in pen and black ink: (this is very ... similar to the original as it was when I sketched it); lower left in pen and black ink: (figures the right size); lower center in pen and black ink: (earth and grass, repeated twice); lower right in pen and black ink: (road); by later hand, upper left faintly in graphite: Chinnery; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 27; the artist's inscriptions are in Gurney shorthand; lower left verso in pen and black ink: (the head of the figure looking down and not at the child would be better)
Provenance
(Leger Galleries Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, March 1988-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.
Exhibition History
- 1993
- Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 38.
- 1996
- Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996 (recto only).
Bibliography
- 1993
- NGA O'Neal 1993, ex 38.
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