Female Nude
Walter Shirlaw
c. 1872
Medium
charcoal on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 49.37 × 35.4 cm (19 7/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Walter Shirlaw, wife of the artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.268
About the Artist
Walter Shirlaw · 1838–1909
Walter Shirlaw (1838–1909) was a Scottish-born American painter and illustrator whose career bridged the genteel tradition of academic figure painting and the emerging ambitions of American art in the Gilded Age. Born in Paisley, Scotland, Shirlaw emigrated to the United States as a child and received his early artistic training in America before traveling to Munich to study at the Royal Academy —...