Collection Highlights
Settee
Date:
ca. 1800
Object Number:
INV.14952
Medium:
Maple, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Possibly After an Assumption of the Virgin?
Object Number:
1935.85.2.115
Date:
c. 1875
Medium:
Graphite, pastel(?), and white wash(?) on ivory paper.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 x 3 9/16 in. (14.9 x 9 cm)
Inscriptions:
Recto: Inscribed in graphite at upper center: "cherubs"
Verso: Inscribed in graphite at upper left: "sky higher in / value than the / water"; at upper center: "blue dark"; and below: "Blue black"; at upper right: "blue"; at center left: "Warm [coloring?] the horizon"; at center: "[Red?] / Rosy"; below (in water): "affected by rosy light"; at lower left: "dark"; at lower center-right: "black gondola & figures / dark"
Description:
Drawing from a bound album of 308 tipped in works by Beckwith.
Verso: Sketch of horizon with gondola on water.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
