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Commodore John Barry

1830

Asher Brown Durand

Artist, American, 1796 - 1886

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Artwork overview

Medium

graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
Dimensions

image (irregular): 8.57 × 8.26 cm (3 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
sheet: 15.88 × 14.45 cm (6 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.751

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Castano Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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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. 4, no. 23.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: A B Durand / 1830

Wikidata ID

Q64536755

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