DrawingsSwiss18th-19th century

Girl wearing a Straw Hat

18th-19th century

Artists

Wolfgang Adam TöpfferArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, watercolor, opaque white watercolor, and graphite on brown paper

Culture

Swiss

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

sight: 28 × 20.6 cm (11 × 8 1/8 in.) frame: 49.5 × 42 cm (19 1/2 × 16 9/16 in.)

Provenance

[Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 3, 2015, lot 123]. [August Laube, Zürich], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, 2015, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

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