1957.21: Faith, Hope, and Charity, Study for Window, Trinity Church, Chicago
DrawingsThe first figure on the left stands in three-quarter view, facing towards the right, holding up a golden chalice in her right hand, head slightly bent to show more of the neck. The middle figure faces forward with head turned slightly right, looking to the right, holding a small flaming cup in the right hand at waist level and a flowers cradled in the left arm. The figure on the right faces us with a slight turn to the left, looking left. Her hands together in a praying gesture. There’s handwriting at the bottom in the margi
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1957.21
- People
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John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)
- Title
- Faith, Hope, and Charity, Study for Window, Trinity Church, Chicago
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Three Standing Female Figures
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1900 - 1902
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308491
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Transparent and opaque watercolor on buff wove paper
- Dimensions
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19.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Border drawn around image.: 14.2 x 22.4 cm (5 9/16 x 8 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, lower center, in image: J LAFARGE 1900--
- inscription: lower edge, graphite, in artist's hand: Faith Charity Hope colour sketch of similar drawing (1902 JLF)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Sale, Doll and Richards, Boston, 1904; purchased at that sale by Mrs. Roland C. Lincoln, Boston; her bequest (?) to her daughter, Bessie Lincoln Potter, and son-in-law, Murray Anthony Potter, Boston, 1920.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Murray Anthony and Bessie Lincoln Potter
- Accession Year
- 1957
- Object Number
- 1957.21
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Image divided into three separate panels. Paper from old mount covers verso.
Publication History
- Helen Barbara Weinberg, "The Decorative Work of John La Farge" (Thesis, Columbia University, 1977), Garland Press, p. 233, note 1; reproduced fig. 171
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 210-211, cat. no. 161, reproduced in color, p. 210
Exhibition History
- Exhibition and Private Sale of Pictures, Drawings and Sketches by Mr. John La Farge, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 02/26/1904 - 03/16/1904
- American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
- 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/01/2023 - 10/16/2023
Verification Level
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