Portrait of a young woman hand sewing a yellow garment at a table.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A woman wearing a blue top, leans forward from the left center, into a table where she’s hand sewing a flat yellow garment with a grid pattern, possibly a quilt or blanket. The garment flows into the lower right of the drawing. Her face has the most detail as she intently looks down at the garment. Her brown hair is tucked up high, neatly behind her head, with bangs covering her forehead. Her hands are rendered in pencil, and the right hand is highlighted in white strokes. The background consists of a wall of diagonal dotted lines over wide blue and light blue vertical stripes.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.34
People
Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin, French (Paris, France 1841 - 1927 Paris, France)
Title
Woman Sewing
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1884
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/211727

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel and black chalk on blue-speckled buff wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 51.4 x 45.8 cm (20 1/4 x 18 1/16 in.)
frame: 70.2 x 64.4 x 5.5 cm (27 5/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, l.l.: Guillaumin 84
  • label: back of frame, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [handwritten:] #10426
  • inscription: backing, graphite: 15,000
  • inscription: backing, black ink: [ ] 1759 / 5
  • label: backing, paper, black ink, handwritten: 40

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David and Lucie Stone, New York, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, David and Lucie Stone Collection through the Bequest of David Stone
Copyright
© Jean Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.34
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI, 2011), p. 54, repr. p. 108 as pl. 49, listed on p. 170 under "works in the exhibition"

Exhibition History

  • Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 10/14/2011 - 01/08/2012

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