The Napoleon Girl
Childe Hassam, American, 1859 - 1935
April 14, 1922
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 12 13/16 × 9 3/16 in. (32.5 × 23.4 cm)
Sheet: 15 9/16 × 10 3/8 in. (39.5 × 26.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.254
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right on the plate: CH New York April 14, 1922; Signed in graphite, lower right on the margin: trademark CH imp; lower left in graphite, on the margin: Napoleon Girl
Provenance
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Catalogue Raisonne
P. Eliasoph, Handbook of the Complete Set of Etchings and Drypoints with 25 Illustrations of Childe Hassam, N.A. of the American Academy of Fine Arts and Letters, New York: The Leonard Clayton Gallery, Inc., 1933, p. 44, no. 192. R. Cortissoz, Catalogu
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