DrawingsSwiss18th-19th century

Girl wearing a Straw Hat

18th-19th century

Artists

Wolfgang Adam TöpfferArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and black, white and red chalks on brown wove paper

Culture

Swiss

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

sight: 28 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1/8 in.) frame: 49.5 x 42.4 x 2.9 cm (19 1/2 x 16 11/16 x 1 1/8 in.)

Provenance

[Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 3, 2015, lot 123]. [August Laube, Zürich], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, 2015, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

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