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John La Farge

Study for "Christ Appearing to Mary", 1877-1878

Not on View

Medium

graphite on tracing paper mounted to board

Dimensions

image: 25.72 × 30 cm (10 1/8 × 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.742

Artists / Makers

John La Farge (artist) American, 1835 - 1910

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

stamped lower right in red ink: [the artist's Japanese characters]

Provenance

(Weyhe Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Weyhe Gallery

Exhibition History

2025: The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024-2025, p. 133, cat. 46, repro.

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 75, no. 473.

2024: Mitchell, Mark DeSaussure.The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917. Exh cat. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024: cat. 46, 135, color repro.

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