Idyll

Frederic Stuart Church, 1886

The sketch shows a person playing a wind instrument such as a flute. The person is depicted from a side view, with one arm raised to hold the instrument near the mouth. The figure has short, wavy hair pulled back and… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Frederic Stuart Church ¹
Date: 1886 ¹
Medium: graphite with gray wash and white heightening on brown paper ¹
Original: 5,068 × 3,613 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Davis Hatch Collection

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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