Skip to Main Content

Admission is always free

Open today: 10:00 to 5:00

Directions Play Artle

Home>Collection>The Prayer

1 / 1

download image
This image is in the public domain. You can copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. Learn more about our image policies.

William Morris Hunt

The Prayer, c. 1860s

Not on View

Medium

charcoal and chalk on blue-gray paper

Dimensions

sheet: 31.75 × 25.56 cm (12 1/2 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.746

Artists / Makers

William Morris Hunt (artist) American, 1824 - 1879

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

lower left in graphite: WMH [the artist's monogram]

Provenance

(Victor D. Spark, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Spark, Victor D.

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. 39, no. 274.

Related Content