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A woman stands in a landscape wearing a crown and robes, holding floral greens in the fold of her cape.

The young fair skinned woman faces us, arms to her side as her right hand gently holds up the fold of her cape containing a few pink flowers. Her head leans slightly to the left as her blue eyes look to the upper left. Her crown is gold, her hair light brown bangs parted in the center. Her dress is light blue and tied above the waist, under a pink cape that flows to the ground. Overall the colors are light and pastel hues, the background is bright spring greens with a blue watercolor wash sky.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.59
People
John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)
Title
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Study for Chapel, Caldwell House, Newport Rhode Island
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1887
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307835

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on off-white wove paper mounted on off-white board
Dimensions
32.7 x 21.8 cm (12 7/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
mount: 33.2 x 22.2 cm (13 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Border drawn around image: 25.2 x 14.9 cm (9 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: La Farge 87; l.l. margin: La Farge
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: 13 1/2 x 18 3/4
  • inscription: center left, graphite: [ ] with / [ ] ash [cut off at left edge]
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, handwritten in black ink: Owner: Est. Mrs. S. D. Warren; no. 2668 Apr 1 '02

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sale by the artist to Doll and Richards, Boston, 1890; their sale to Susan Cornelia Clarke (Mrs. Samuel Dennis) Warren, Boston, 1890; her estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 1903; purchased at that sale by A. August Healy, Brooklyn, NY; his bequest to Mrs. Zita von F. Healy, his daughter-in-law, Cold Spring-on-Hudson, NY, 1921; her sale to Walker Galleries, New York, 1938; their sale to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.59
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Henry A. La Farge, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of John La Farge, Unpublished (n.d.), card 571
  • Drawings, Watercolors and Paintings by Mr. John La Farge..., exh. cat., Doll and Richards Gallery (Boston, MA, 1890)
  • "Mrs. S. D. Warren [Estate] Sale", American Art Annual (1903), no.4, pp. 40-43, p. 42
  • Kathleen A. Foster, "Makers of the American Watercolor Movement 1860 - 1890" (1982), Unpublished, p. 328; reproduced fig L12
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 199, cat. no. 152, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • Catalogue of Drawings, Watercolors and Paintings by Mr. John La Farge on Exhibition and Sale, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 01/25/1890 - 02/06/1890
  • Special Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Mrs. S.D. Warren, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/01/1902 - 04/30/1902

Verification Level

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