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Woman Reading
Woman Reading

Woman Reading

Jacques-André Portail (French, 1695–1759)
1735–59
Medium/TechniqueBlack, red, white chalk with touches of blue watercolor
DimensionsFramed: 72.1 x 66.4 x 7.6 cm (28 3/8 x 26 1/8 x 3 in.)
Overall: 46.4 x 36cm (18 1/4 x 14 3/16in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2597
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceGilbert Levy (dealer), Paris. December 4, 1947, sold by the Arnold Seligmann-Helft Corp., New York, to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964) New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)