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The Fallen Deer

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

1892

Medium/TechniqueWatercolor over graphite pencil on paper

DimensionsSheet: 35.2 x 50.3 cm (13 7/8 x 19 13/16 in.)

Credit LineThe Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund

Accession number23.443

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ClassificationsWatercolors

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InscriptionsSigned and dated in black watercolor l.r.: "1892 / HOMER / 189 [.]" Verso: in graphite, "just shot" [crossed out] and "No.4 A miserable [erased] "Pot hunter" [crossed out] and miscellaneous notations./Signed and dated lower right in black wash: 1892 / HOMER. On verso in graphite (Homer;s hand): No 4 A miserable Pot hunter; just shot; in pen and brown ink (Homer's hand): D--14 * 20; in blue crayon (probably Homer's hand) 6 and 26 (each in a circle).

ProvenanceWilliam T. Evans, N.Y.; sold N.Y. American Art Association, March 1913, no. 33, repr.; with Moulton and Ricketts, N.Y.; with Frank W. Bayley, Boston, 1923; purchased by MFA 1923.