About the Artwork
Numa Pompilius
1905
John La Farge
1835-1910
American
Unknown
Watercolor over pencil on thin tissue paper mounted overall to paperboard
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 7/16 inches (24.1 × 34.1 cm) Mount: 10 1/2 × 13 7/8 inches (26.7 × 35.2 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund
48.270
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Markings
Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right: JLF 190[illegible]
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower left: Numa Pompilius | He sits listening to the nymph | instructing him. The font flows between them Inscribed, on mount, lower right: Design from Baltimore Court House | Return to John La Farge [struck through] | 51 W 10
Mark, in red ink, lower left: [Chinese chop mark of three characters in a circle]
Provenance
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 29, 1 (1949-1950): pp. 18-20 (ill.).
Page, Addison Franklin. "Four Water Color Studies by John La Farge." Art Quarterly 12, 3 (1949): pp. 282-284.
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John La Farge, Numa Pompilius, 1905, watercolor over pencil on thin tissue paper mounted overall to paperboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund, 48.270.
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