Charles Fairfax Murray
1849-1919
Portrait of Clara Sentance
1870
12 1/16 x 9 1/2 inches (306 x 243 mm)
Watercolor and opaque watercolor or tempera over black chalk, on wove paper wrapped over wooden support and lined with linen.
1973.20
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed, dated, and signed by the artist in pen and blue ink on banderole at right center, "Clara Sentance 1870 CFM"; inscribed, signed, and dated in brush and brown wash on the linen backing, "Clara Sentance / C. F. Murray / 1870 / Watercolor"; signed by the artist on the paper backing of the frame in pen and brown ink, "Chas. F. Murray".
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 174.
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