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JOHN LA FARGE
Chinese Pitong Inlaid with Ivory, Mother-of-Pearl and Stones
.
Pen and black ink and gouache on paper mounted on card stock, circa 1879. 240x150
mm; 9
1
/
2
x6 inches. Signed, titled and annotated in pen and black ink, lower margin recto.
Ex-collection the artist James D. Smillie; thence by descent to the current owners.
La Farge made this drawing to be illustrated in the AmericanWatercolor Society’s twelfth
annual exhibition catalogue, NewYork, 1879 (see also lots 13, 14 and 15).
The watercolor and gouache that this drawing was based on is now at the Fogg Art Museum,
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (bequest of Grenville L.Winthrop, 1943.310).
[3,000/5,000]
