Au Grand Prix de Paris (At the Grand Prix de Paris)
Childe Hassam
1887
Medium
pastel over graphite on paperboard coated with sawdust
Dimensions
board: 40.48 × 31.75 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)
Accession Number
2014.79.39
About the Artist
Childe Hassam · 1859–1935
Frederick Childe Hassam, born on October 17, 1859, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to a family of New England descent with ties to Nathaniel Hawthorne through his mother, Rosa Delia Hawthorne, displayed an early aptitude for art. After his father's cutlery business was ruined by the Great Boston Fire of 1872, Hassam apprenticed as a wood engraver under George E. Johnson while taking drawing and wate...