DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Cherub Heads, color study for glass

c. 1896

Artists

John La FargeArtist

Description

Faint fleur-de-lis drawn in graphite under image. Paper is cut into shape of Gothic arch.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor and black ink on tan wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

23.9 x 9.5 cm (9 7/16 x 3 3/4 in.) Image drawn in Gothic-arch shaped border: 16.7 x 6.5 cm (6 9/16 x 2 9/16 in.)

Provenance

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

Related Artworks

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled ("flying bell ringers," right page)

Otto Piene, 1990

Colored marker on paper

Drawings

All About Eve... Background

Lawrence Charles Weiner, 1992

Graphite, gouache, crayon, and silver and black ink on white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Detail of North Entrance, Cathedral, Plaza de la Almoina, Palma, Mallorca (Majorca)

John Singer Sargent, 1908

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Bahner Residence, Berlin, Klein-Machnow, 1933: Fence: elevations, 1:10

Carl Fieger, 1933

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Study of Heather (Erica)

Jacobus van Eynden, 18th-19th century

Transparent and opaque watercolor, and black chalk on off-white wove paper, partial framing line in black chalk

18th-19th centuryDutch

Drawings

Sardis

Ferdinand Johann Heinrich von Olivier, 19th century

19th centuryGerman

Drawings

Nude

Jean Charlot, 20th century

Graphite on off-white tracing paper mounted to white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Copy after the Louvre Study for "La Belle Jardiniere" by Raphael

Raphael, 16th century

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper, squared in red chalk, laid down overall on cream antique laid decorated mount of John Barnard (?)

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Head of the Virgin Annunciate

Unidentified Artist, c. 1400-1410

Black and red inks applied with a brush over black chalk on prepared parchment

15th centuryBohemian

Drawings

Study for "Fan Dance at Jimmy Kelly's"

Reginald Marsh, c. 1936

Graphite on off-white tracing paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled; verso: Untitled

Lyonel Feininger, c. 1910

Black colored pencil and green crayon on off-white wove paper; verso: black colored pencil on off-white wove paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Lucretia

Carlo Maratti, 17th-18th century

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount

17th-18th centuryItalian