DrawingsFrench19th century

Death of Virginia

1828

Artists

Guillaume Guillon LethièreArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk, brown and gray wash, white gouache, and traces of graphite on cream wove paper

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

sheet: 68 × 101.7 cm (26 3/4 × 40 1/16 in.) image: 56.8 × 97.4 cm (22 3/8 × 38 3/8 in.) frame: 78.7 × 118.7 × 4.4 cm (31 × 46 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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