In the time of Watteau [art original]

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Title: In the time of Watteau [art original]
Creator: Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created: [1885]
Publication Place: New York?
Abstract: Drawing of a woman, full length, standing next to a table on which a mirror and a vase of flowers sit; dressed in early eighteenth-century French attire, her hair up and topped with feathers; holding a rose in her right hand and a hairbrush(?) in her left hand
Description: Title written below image.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Page reference written below title: Page 84.
Bound in as page 120 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance: Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 25.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Watercolors American 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Subjects: Clothing & dress > France > 18th century
American > 19th century
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: David Edward Cronin, In the Time of Watteau. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.