Currently not on view
Drapery study for female figure in The Blessing of Sleep,
1899
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919
x1948-965
Information
Title
Drapery study for female figure in The Blessing of Sleep
Dates
1899
Maker
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
50.5 x 21.2 cm. (19 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-965
Signatures
Signed in graphite, lower right: Kenyon Cox
Inscription
in graphite, across top: "'The Blessing of Sleep" Drapery study for female figure | 1899
Culture
Type
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Weyhe Gallery, New York; Dan Fellows Platt, 1937 (his stamp on verso, lower left, in black).
- 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. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated illus.)
