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The Countess as Barber

Sir John Everett Millais
1829-1896

The Countess as Barber

July 25, 1853
7 3/8 x 9 1/16 inches (187 x 230 mm)
Pen and brown ink on wove paper.
1968.7

Purchased on the Fellows Fund.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Lettered by the artist at upper left, "The Countess as Barber. Rain"; at lower right, "1853 / July 25th Rain".
Associated names
Millais, Ralph, Sir, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 118.
Mary Lutyens, Millais and the Ruskins, London, 1967, 71, 222, repr. 98.
Millais, Royal Academy, London, 1967, no. 299.
Mary Lutyens, "Portraits of Effie," Apollo, LXXXVII, 1968, 194, f., fig. 13.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department