A Graduate of Pomona
William Henry Hunt, The SIsters, c. 1835
The Sisters
San Marino, California, The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, No. 59.55.755
Watercolor and bodycolor with scratching out
12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in., 31.1 x 23.5 cm.
Provenance:
Colnaghi, London;
Gilbert Davis, London, by whom sold to the Huntington Library in 1959.
The title of this very fine example of Hunt's non-humorous watercolors might be the key which unlocks the identities of these two girl models, who appear at various ages in several of the artist's works from the 1830s -- A Group of Models (1832), the present work (c. 1835), Gypsies Outside (c. 1836), The Toilet (1837). and Juvenile Palmistry (1839). Hunt's most frequently used model, John Swain, appears with them in the earliest and latest of these watercolors,
William Henry Hunt, The SIsters, c. 1835
The Sisters
San Marino, California, The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, No. 59.55.755
Watercolor and bodycolor with scratching out
12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in., 31.1 x 23.5 cm.
Provenance:
Colnaghi, London;
Gilbert Davis, London, by whom sold to the Huntington Library in 1959.
The title of this very fine example of Hunt's non-humorous watercolors might be the key which unlocks the identities of these two girl models, who appear at various ages in several of the artist's works from the 1830s -- A Group of Models (1832), the present work (c. 1835), Gypsies Outside (c. 1836), The Toilet (1837). and Juvenile Palmistry (1839). Hunt's most frequently used model, John Swain, appears with them in the earliest and latest of these watercolors,