About the Artwork
The White Monk
18th century
Richard Wilson
ca. 1713-1782
Welsh
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 18 × 24 1/4 inches (45.7 × 61.6 cm) Framed: 24 × 30 × 2 7/8 inches (61 × 76.2 × 7.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Stanley M. Carper
31.26
Public Domain
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Provenance
collection of Sir R. Brooke (Norton Priory Runcorn, Bart, England);1929, collection of Colonel M. H. Grant (London, England);
collection of Stanley M. Carper;
1931-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Heil, W. Art in America, vol XIX (1930-31): p. 200 ff.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 145, no. 797.
Constable, W.G. Richard Wilson. London, 1953, pp. 228-9, (ill.).
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Richard Wilson, The White Monk, 18th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Stanley M. Carper, 31.26.
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