Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Compositional Study for the "Baptism of Christ"

Benjamin West
1738-1820

Compositional Study for the "Baptism of Christ"

14 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches (365 x 314 mm)
Black chalk on light brown paper; squared for transfer in white chalk.
1983.90

Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle.

Notes
Watermark: none.
This is a preparatory study for the painting, "The Baptism of Christ," executed for the King's Chapel at Windsor, and now at the War Memorial Chapel, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina. Another study for this painting, the figure of Christ, is in the Morgan collection, 1970.11:16.
Associated names
McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 314-315.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department