Benjamin West
1738-1820
Two Women Carrying Baskets on Their Heads. Verso: Compositional sketch for a Resurrection
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (170 x 244 mm)
Black chalk on gray-brown paper; verso: black chalk.
1970.11:206
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.
Notes
The two half-length figures of women carrying baskets in this drawing appear in the background of West's painting, "Christ Healing the Sick in the Temple," 1814, now at the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Associated names
Margary, Harry, former owner.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and his son Raphael Lamar West. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 92.
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