Woman standing in a field of flowers [drawing].

Record ID: 
406044
Accession number: 
MA 8615.5
Author: 
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Published: 
[New York, ca. 1942-1943]
Credit: 
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Part of Joseph Cornell's Saint-Exupéry dossier (MA 8615), a collection of drawings and ephemera that Cornell assembled to document his friendship with Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.
On onionskin paper watermarked "Esleck / Fidelity Onion Skin / MADE IN U.S.A." The drawing is on a half-sheet of 11 x 8 1/2 inch paper; the top of the sheet was torn away and the drawing appears on the bottom half.

Medium: 
Brown ink on onionskin paper
Dimensions: 
6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (159 x 215 mm), top edge irregular
Provenance: 
Joseph Cornell; his sister Helen Jagger; her daughter Helen Jagger Batcheller; her son Edward Batcheller.
Classification: