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Seated Man with Small Horn

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Type
Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date
ca. 1845 - 1847
Accession number
98.30.3
Maker
John Frederick Kensett(Opens in new tab) (American, 1816–1872)
Medium
graphite and watercolor on paper
Credit
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Michael St. Clair
Department
American Art
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These lively figure studies reveal the working methods Kensett and Casilear employed in their costume drawings. The line to the left of the figure in Kensett's Seated Man with Small Horn represents an abandoned start to the composition. In Man with a Pipe, Casilear, or perhaps a playful classmate, added a caricature to the upper-right corner.

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