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Le Puy

Artist Edward Lear (English, 1812 - 1888)
Date1848
MediumPen, sepia ink, and opaque white
DimensionsOverall: 8 5/16 × 12 7/8 inches (21.11 × 32.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/42
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 99, as Le Puy.

City Views, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 31-July 10, 1983, no. 28, as Le Puy.

Provenance

Purchased from Durlacher Brothers, New York, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, 1961-1980;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 6, no. 4 (March 7-April 4, 1965), 47, (repro.), as Le Puy.

Ross E. Taggart and Roger B. Ward, City Views, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 13, as Le Puy.

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