Collection Highlights
Mrs. Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1786-1851)
Date:
ca. 1825
Object Number:
1920.5
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Study of a Rustic Building
Object Number:
X.443u
Date:
1861-62
Medium:
Graphite and white gouache on brown paper, from a disassembled album
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/4 x 9 9/16 in. ( 17.1 x 24.3 cm )
mat: 16 x 22 in. ( 40.6 x 55.9 cm )
Description:
Landscape
Gallery Label:
The album in which this sketch was received is inscribed on the flyleaf, "Sketches made by/Thomas H. Hotchkiss/Rome, Italy." Hotchkiss and Lucy Durand Woodman, the mother of Nora D. Woodman, were friends; moreover, similar inscriptions appear on other items presented by Miss Woodman to the Society. She is therefore assumed to be the donor.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Provenance:
Estate of Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss; Asher B. durand and Family; Lucy Durand Woodman, Orange, New Jersey
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
