Head of a Spanish Monk

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 15 July 1999, no. 99). (Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, London); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Head of a Spanish Monk

Lewis, John Frederick

1832/1834

Accession Number

2020.49.2

Medium

watercolor and chalk over graphite, heightened with gouache, on buff wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 25.9 × 204 cm (10 3/16 × 80 5/16 in.) | mount: 35 × 29.6 cm (13 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund