John La Farge
The Muse of Painting
1870125.7 x 97.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on tree trunk at upper right: LA FARGE / 1870
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Walters, 1909
Provenance
The artist, 1870–1884
sale, Ortgies and Company, New York, 17 April 1884, nr. 18
Otto Weir Heinigke Sr., New York, 1884–1909
Daniel Chester French, New York, as agent, 1909
J. Pierpont Morgan, New York and Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909
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