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Boy Sitting on a Rail

c. 1840-1850

James Goodwyn Clonney

Artist, American, 1812 - 1867

Medium

graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of J. William Middendorf, II)
Dimensions

image (irregular): 9.84 × 7.46 cm (3 7/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
sheet: 19.37 × 12.07 cm (7 5/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Accession

2015.19.2644

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. William Middendorf, II, McLean, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

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. 22, no. 160.

Wikidata ID

Q64580350

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