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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
The Balcony
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

The Balcony

Artist Unknown
CultureAmerican
Date1880
MediumPastel and pencil on paper
DimensionsOverall: 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in. (21.9 x 14.3 cm)
InscribedSigned lower right with the butterfly
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number78.431
Not on view
DescriptionA detailed scene of a balcony, possibly set in Venice. One figure stands below the balcony in the gondola. Another figure on the balcony stands in front of a blanket hanging over the rail.

ProvenanceGeorge Wolf, New York, 1920s--1970s?; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1978. Published ReferencesAPOLLO, May 1985
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1785-1865
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Utagawa (Andō) Hiroshige
1854
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Thomas Waterman Wood
1876
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
19th century
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Romeo Ongaro
ca. 1930-1940
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Phanyllis Group
520 - 510 B.C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown