8.1955.253: Half-Length Portrait of a Lady, for "Miriam the Prophetess"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.253

People

Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)

Title

Half-Length Portrait of a Lady, for "Miriam the Prophetess"

Other Titles

Former Title: Half-length Study of a Young Woman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1821

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305896

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

23 x 16 cm (9 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust

Object Number

8.1955.253

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 72, reproduced in b/w fig. 183
• William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), pp. 228-230, cat. 95, ill.

Exhibition History

• "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980

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