The Sketcher: A Portrait of Mlle Rosina, a Jewess
1858
Daniel Huntington
American, 1816-1906
American Art
Daniel Huntington, a leading nineteenth-century American figure painter, based this “portrait” on a favorite model. He intended it to be an ideal figure personifying the art of drawing and the spirit of creativity. Perhaps owing to its reference to art-making, Huntington chose this work to fulfill a commission from the fledgling Brooklyn Institute (the forerunner of the Brooklyn Museum), whose painting collection had been formally initiated in 1851.
- Maker/Artist
- Huntington, Daniel
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39 x 31 3/16 in. (99.1 x 79.2 cm) frame: 51 x 43 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (129.5 x 110.5 x 10.8 cm)
- Inscribed
- Signed verso stretcher upper center: "painted by D. Huntington / Paris 1858"; inscribed verso stretcher upper center (in unknown hand): "The Sketcher--a portrait of Mlle Rosina, a jewess"
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 97.33
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to the Brooklyn Museum
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
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