DETAILS
- Artist
- Violet Oakley
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Watercolor on off-white wove paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 13 15/16 x 9 15/16 in. (35.4 x 25.2 cm)
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Gift of Edith Emerson, 1978
THE ARTIST
Violet Oakley
Violet Oakley made history as the first American woman to receive a major public mural commission, transforming vast spaces with her Renaissance-revival style.
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