About This Artwork
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
French, 1827-1875
Bust of a Young Womann.d.
Black chalk, with stumping, on gray-brown wove paper
254 x 240 mm
Worcester Sketch Fund, 1974.44R
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Ownership History
Possibly the artist's estate, from 1875; possibly the artist's brother, Edward Carpeaux, Elko, Nevada [letter from Paul Ogden in the curatorial file]. Private Collection, San Rafael, Cal., to around 1939 [Ogden letter]. Isabelle Percy West, Cal., c. 1939-c. 1959 [Ogden letter]. Paul Ogden, Lafayette, Cal., c. 1959-1974 [Ogden letter]; sold to the Art Institute, 1974.