Sheep Porcupine Island, Bar Harbor, Maine, Evening Study, August 29, 1896
1896
Medium
Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper laid down on off-white wove paper.
Dimensions
6 3/16 x 8 7/16 in. (15.7 x 21.4 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Alice Thorp, 1953
Accession Number
53.190
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...