Collection Highlights
Freedom to the Slaves
Date:
ca. 1865
Object Number:
PR.052.58
Medium:
Lithograph
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Portrait of Madame Moreau, a Creole
Object Number:
1953.278
Medium:
Graphite, watercolor, gray wash, and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. ( 19.4 x 15.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower left, ink: "Mde Moreau, creole"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed below image at lower left in brown ink: "Mde Moreau créole"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
This is a full study of a seated woman, with a shawl around her shoulders.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
