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The Cossack Guard (recto); Lake Kouban (verso)
The Cossack Guard (recto); Lake Kouban (verso)

The Cossack Guard (recto); Lake Kouban (verso)

Artist Auguste Raffet (French, 1804 - 1860)
Date1837
MediumWatercolor on paper (recto), pencil on paper (verso)
DimensionsSheet: 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (18.42 x 24.77 cm)
Mat: 14 x 18 inches (35.56 x 45.72 cm)
Credit LineJoseph F. McCrindle Collection, gift in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Object number2009.20.10
InscribedOctober 9, 1837, lower left indistinctly inscribed on the lower left
Markingsstudio stamp on lower right
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DescriptionRecto: Eight figures lined up facing out, in military uniform, standing on a veranda with wooden pillars.
Verso: A landscape lightly sketched in pencil, with a body of water in the foreground, mountains at the center, and sketchy, wavy lines to indicate the sky and clouds.Exhibition History

Magnificent Gifts for the 75th, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 23-April 4, 2010, no cat.

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle (1923-2008), New York, by July 11, 2008;

His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2009.


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