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A Country Scene, July 1848. Graphite with smudging, heightened with lead white gouache, on blue wove paper.
Graphite with smudging, heightened with lead white gouache, on blue wove paper · 27 × 38 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- A Country Scene
- Artist
- John La Farge American, 1835-1910
- Date
- July 1848
- Medium
- Graphite with smudging, heightened with lead white gouache, on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 27 × 38 cm (10 11/16 × 15 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Andrea and Joseph Goldberg
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1835–1910
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.