Black chalk, gray wash, and white gouache on thin, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 1/8 inches (25.2 × 20.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "K I 29."; inscribed on verso of mount paper in brown ink, upper center: "Ophelia. Portrait imaginé. Sept. 3. 28. | Explication. Ophelia était amoureuse de Hamlet mais il n'avait rien à lui dire si elle s'est mite a flotter dans la rievière en chantant"; lower left: "DL 1077"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Accession Number:
B1993.30.100
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait | woman
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris (Pallant House Gallery, 2023-05-13 - 2023-10-08)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)The Myth and Madness of Ophelia (Mead Art Museum, 2001-10-26 - 2001-12-16)
Publications:
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)