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The image depicts two individuals within a wooden cabin-like room with no windows. The person on the left is sitting on the floor against a wall, with only the upper half of their body visible. The person on the right is standing with their back slightly to the viewer, displaying their full height, and they are bent slightly forward towards the sitting person. The floor is wooden, with several objects scattered around, including a tipped-over chair, a jug, and a metal bowl on the floor. A coat or jacket is hanging on the wall behind the seated person. The walls are made of horizontal wooden planks.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A Conjugal Difference
Arthur B. Frost
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 55.56 × 37.15 cm (21 7/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 2015.19.983
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Becker, 1961)
- Time span
- 1876 to 1900
- Department
- CG-W
Subjects and terms
- American
- group
- figure
- Marriage
- Figures
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Becker, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1961; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Inscription
lower left in gray watercolor: A. B. FROST
NGA object ID 180862. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.