The Sketcher: A Portrait of Mlle Rosina, a Jewess
Daniel Huntington
American Art
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Daniel Huntington, a leading nineteenth-century American figure painter, based this “portrait” on a favorite model. He intended it to be an ideal figure personifying the art of drawing and the spirit of creativity. Perhaps owing to its reference to art-making, Huntington chose this work to fulfill a commission from the fledgling Brooklyn Institute (the forerunner of the Brooklyn Museum), whose painting collection had been formally initiated in 1851.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1858
DIMENSIONS
39 x 31 3/16 in. (99.1 x 79.2 cm)
frame: 51 x 43 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (129.5 x 110.5 x 10.8 cm)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "D. Huntington / Paris 1858"
INSCRIPTIONS
Signed verso stretcher upper center: "painted by D. Huntington / Paris 1858"; inscribed verso stretcher upper center (in unknown hand): "The Sketcher--a portrait of Mlle Rosina, a jewess"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
97.33
CREDIT LINE
Transferred from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to the Brooklyn Museum
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
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