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Sir John Everett Millais
1829-1896
The Countess as Barber
July 25, 1853
Pen and brown ink on wove paper.
7 3/8 x 9 1/16 inches (187 x 230 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
1968.7
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Lettered by the artist at upper left, "The Countess as Barber. Rain"; at lower right, "1853 / July 25th Rain".
Provenance:
Sir Ralph Millais (grandson of the artist), sale, London, Christie's, 11 June 1968, no. 146A, repr.
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.
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