Lot Essay
This drawing, the model for whom was Maria Cole, the artist's wife, is a study for the figure at the left in The Pic-Nic of 1846 in the collection of The Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Details
THOMAS COLE (1801-1848)
Woman with Wreath
pencil and chalk on buff paper
11 5/8 x 8 3/8in. (29.7 x 21.4cm.)
Woman with Wreath
pencil and chalk on buff paper
11 5/8 x 8 3/8in. (29.7 x 21.4cm.)
Provenance
The artist
Theodore Cole, his son
Mary Emily Cole Van Loan, his daughter
Theodore Cole, his son
Mary Emily Cole Van Loan, his daughter
Literature
Kathie E. Manthorne, "American Drawings and Watercolors," in Arts Magazine, Jan 1980, p.9.