The Muse of Painting
John La Farge
1870
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
49 1/2 x 38 1/4 in. (125.7 x 97.2 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Walters, 1909
Accession Number
09.176
Tags
PaintingWomenAllegory
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...