Study of Lealia Purpurata and Another Orchid

Artist Martin Johnson Heade (1819 - 1904)

Dateca. 1870

MediumOil and pencil on canvas

Dimensions9 × 14 1/4 in. (22.9 × 36.2 cm)
Framed: 16 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2007.207

Signedl.l., in pencil: MJ Heade Room 91

Accession number 2007.207

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Provenancegiven by Artist to Wilma E. Davis [1891-1992], St. Augustine, FL, 1904; given to St. Augustine Historical Society, St. Augustine, FL, 1944; to (George K. Arnold Fine Arts, Ormond Beach, FL), 2007; to (Sotheby's Inc., New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2007
Inscribedc.r., under flower: Lealia Purpurata