The Tomb of Iyeyasu Tokugawa
John La Farge
1888
Medium
Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
10 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (27 x 23.2 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. Jerome Konheim, 1989
Accession Number
1989.261.1
Tags
Tombs
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...