Study for 'The Woman clothed with the Sun'

Details

Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738-1820)
Study for 'The Woman clothed with the Sun'
with inscription 'B West' (lower right)
black and white chalk on blue-grey paper
11 x 8 in. (28 x 20.3 cm.)

Provenance

The artist's family, and by descent to
Mrs P. Howard; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1979, part of lot 9, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Texas, San Antonio Museum of Art, Revealed Religion: Benjamin West's Commissions for Windsor Castle and Fonthill Abbey, 18 September - 13 November 1983, no. 38.

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Lot Essay

This study is related to the oil painting The Woman clothed with the Sun (dated circa 1797, von Erffa & Staley, 405), now at Princeton University Art Gallery. The work was commissioned for the Revelation Chamber at Fonthill Abbey, along with a painting of A mighty Angel standeth upon the Land and upon the Sea (see lot 33). For another related drawing see lot 35.

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