Study for "Faith" and "Hope"
c. 1890
Medium
transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on illustration board
Dimensions
image: 24.61 × 16.35 cm (9 11/16 × 6 7/16 in.) board: 37.47 × 28.73 cm (14 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)
Accession Number
2015.19.506
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...