Portrait of a Woman

John Constable (English, 1776–1837)

about 1818

Medium/TechniqueOil on paperboard

Dimensions22.6 x 21.6 cm (8 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Ira S. Parke

Accession number61.241

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceBy 1941, private collection, England and Detroit; sold from the estate of the collector to an antique dealer, Detroit; about 1941, sold by the dealer to Ira S. Parke, Amherst, MA and Pacific Grove, CA [see note 1]; 1961, gift of Ira S. Parke to the MFA. (Accession date: April 12, 1961)

NOTES:
[1] A letter in the MFA curatorial file from Ira S. Parke to the MFA (January 4, 1961) states that he purchased the painting "about twenty years ago." A note by Mr. Parke (undated; probably 1961) states that the dealer from whom he purchased it said "that it came into his possession in a mass of household goods that he had bought from the Estate of an English woman who had come to live in Detroit."