Sketches for a Scroll
1890 · pen and black ink, watercolor, and graphite on brown wove paper
sheet: 29.6 × 46.8 cm (11 5/8 × 18 7/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Charles Sprague Pearce
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Born in Boston, Charles Sprague Pearce joined fellow expatriate artists and moved to Paris in 1882, working in the studio of Léon Bonnat, just as John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins had before him. In August 1884, Pearce purchased a farm in Auvers-sur-Oise, a town some twenty miles northwest of Paris on the banks of the Oise river. While many other artists had worked in the area, including Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, and Camille Pissarro (in nearby Pontoise), this relocation more closely aligned Pearce with his French Naturalist contemporaries.
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