Collection Highlights
Mrs. Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1786-1851)
Date:
ca. 1825
Object Number:
1920.5
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Half-Length Portrait of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album
Object Number:
1979.23g
Medium:
Graphite on paper squared for transfer, its verso dusted in sanguine chalk
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 2 in. ( 6 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
This sketch came to the society mounted in an album of sketches and engravings by Thomas S. Cummings and various other nineteenth-century American artists.
Credit Line:
Gift of Whitney Hartshorne
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
