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.

Seated Woman with a Musical Instrument. Verso: Sketch for the same portrait

Benjamin West
1738-1820

Seated Woman with a Musical Instrument. Verso: Sketch for the same portrait

10 9/16 x 8 1/2 inches (269 x 216 mm)
Black and white chalk, on gray paper; some outlines reinforced with pen and black ink; verso: black chalk.
1970.11:188

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.

Notes
Watermark: fleur-de-lis within a circle.
Recto: Study for the Portrait of Mrs. William Beckford (1724/5-98), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (Andrew Mellon Collection, 1947).
Associated names
Margary, Harry, former owner.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and his son Raphael Lamar West. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 158, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department