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The New Baby (Family Group in Mother's Bedroom)
1859
Medium/Technique
Brush and gray wash
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.2 x 46.5 cm (13 1/16 x 18 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800-1875
Accession Number2006.1869
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
DescriptionLooks more like a work by Lilly Martin Spencer; verso annotated that scene depicts the Mercer family of New Jersey, descendents of General Mercer whose portrait is on the wall (cannot confirm this)
InscriptionsLower right: A. B. Durand / 1859
ProvenanceBy 1952, Childs Gallery, Boston; 1952, sold by Childs Gallery to Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1964, bequest of Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 15, 2006)