Winslow Homer
American, 1836–1910
Hunting for Eggs
1874
| Medium | Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on cream wove paper |
| Dimensions | 9 13/16 x 5 9/16 in. (24.9 x 14.1 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1497 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1947 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Winslow Homer, Hunting for Eggs, 1874, Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on cream wove paper. The Clark Art Institute, 1955.1497.
Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Provenance
John Taylor Johnson, New York (his sale, Somerville Art Gallery, 19–22 Dec. 1876, no. 273, sold to Fraser);G. S. Fraser (from 1876); private collection, Boston; [Clyfford Trevor, New York, sold to Clark, 8 Jan. 1947]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1947–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
