1986.425: Peasant Woman on a Country Road

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1986.425

People

Charles Herbert Woodbury, American (Lynn, MA 1864 - 1940 Jamaica Plain, MA)

Title

Peasant Woman on a Country Road

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1894

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309281

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

mount: 26.2 x 39 cm (10 5/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
actual: 26 x 37 cm (10 1/4 x 14 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: purple watercolor, l.r.: Chas H Woodbury '94
• inscription: verso of mount, upper edge, graphite: [ ] or Morris Hunt after Corot [illegible part is obscured by a label]
• label: verso of mount, upper edge, paper with graphite and red felt tip: [graphite:] SPB 203 / [red felt tip:] 246

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Isabella Grandin, Gift of her estate to HUAM, 1986.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Estate of Isabella Grandin

Accession Year

1986

Object Number

1986.425

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Support is mounted to cardboard.

Publication History

• Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 17

Exhibition History

• The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

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