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Falling Devil: Study for an Illustration in Paradise and the Peri,
1884
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919
x1948-9
Information
Title
Falling Devil: Study for an Illustration in Paradise and the Peri
Dates
1884
Maker
Medium
Charcoal over graphite
Dimensions
53.7 x 38.5 cm (21 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-9
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: Kenyon Cox-1884
Inscription
in graphite, lower right above signature: Study for falling devil-Paradise and the Peri
in graphite, center: high lights [sic]
Culture
Materials
Subject
Weyhe Gallery, N.Y.; purchased by Dan Fellows Platt, 1937 (pencil note on verso)
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 111, no. 111 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 212, cat. no. 53; p. 213 (illus.); p. 340, checklist no. 861
