Collection Highlights
A Song for the times, or John Brown
Date:
1860-1870
Object Number:
LIB.SY.B1860.104
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Luce Center
Portrait of Margot/Margurite
Object Number:
1935.85.1.175
Date:
October 9, 1883
Medium:
Brown ink on ivory paper.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (28.3 x 18.1 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed in graphite at lower left: "SS."; below, partially erased: "2 / 307[rd?]/7 an[?] / donor touch up"; in brown ink at lower right: "Carroll Beckwith / 9th October 83"
Description:
Margot and Margurite are probably the same woman.
See Beckwith Scrapbooks in NYHS Library: Volume 2, p. 86 (Peasant Girl at Ande)
Drawing from a bound album with 180 drawings (179 tipped in, one on verso of albumn page) by Beckwith and Sargent.
Credit Line:
Gift of the National Academy of Design
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
