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Inspiration of an Artist

(Westphalian (active in Britain), about 1600–1680)
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions111.5 x 142.5 cm (43 7/8 x 56 1/8 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession number49.1707
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceSold at Christie's, London, February 27, 1948, and bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd.; 1949, sold by Agnew to the MFA for $1543. (Accession Date: November 14, 1949)
Portrait of a Woman
Gerard ter Borch
about 1670
The Card Players
Gerard ter Borch
about 1659
Formation III (Green Landscape)
Arthur Garfield Dove
about 1942
Goldfish
Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof
Self-Portrait
Victorine Meurent
about 1876
The Magnanimity of Lycurgus
Jean-Jacques François Le Barbier
1791
Madonna and Child
Barbara Longhi
Halt at the Spring
François Boucher
1765
Return from Market
François Boucher
1767
Conservation Status: After Treatment
Gustave Doré
about 1860–70
Landscape with a Mill
Eugène Deshayes
1860