A Brittany Beadle—Sketch from Nature
1856
Medium
Watercolor and gouache with graphite on brown wove paper
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 4 in. (14.6 x 10.2 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. William G. Peckham, 1951
Accession Number
51.143
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
John La Farge · 1835–1910
John La Farge (1835–1910) was born into a wealthy French émigré family in New York City, the son of John Frederick La Farge and Louisa Binsse de Saint-Victor. Educated at Jesuit institutions including Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland and St. John's College (now Fordham University), he initially pursued law but turned to art after receiving early drawing lessons from his maternal grandfather, a...