Study for "Commerce", c. 1885

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper mounted to paperboard

Dimensions

image: 19.84 × 33.34 cm (7 13/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
board: 24.77 × 37.78 cm (9 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.743

Artists / Makers

John La Farge (artist) American, 1835 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: Stair; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: John La Farge; center right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 7A [circled]; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: E3

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

1975: American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1975-1977, pp. 80-81, fig. 116, repro

1983: Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 15

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. 76, no. 474.

1984: La Farge, Henry A. "John La Farge's Work in the Vanderbilt Houses." American Art Journal 16, no. 4 (Autumn 1984): p. 38, fig. 12.