Study for a Border Design
Catalogue
- Year
- 1890
- Dimensions
- sheet: 46.9 × 29.53 cm (18 7/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Charles Sprague Pearce
Artist
Painting
Born in Boston, Charles Sprague Pearce joined fellow expatriate artists and moved to Paris in 1882, working in the studio of Léon Bonnat, just as John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins had before him. In August 1884, Pearce purchased a farm in Auvers-sur-Oise, a town some twenty miles northwest of Paris on the banks of the Oise river. While many other artists had worked in the area, including Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, and Camille Pissarro (in nearby Pontoise), this relocation more closely aligned Pearce with his French Naturalist contemporaries.
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- Charles Sprague Pearce
- Year
- 1890
- Dimensions
- sheet: 46.9 × 29.53 cm (18 7/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1890-281067
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified