The Prison Choir

mid 19th century

61.2 cm 50.2 cm

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Three figures, facing right, read music held on a lectern as they sing. Visible in the background are a number of framed paintings suggesting that the scene transpires in the artist's studio rather than in a prison. In the 1878 exhibition, the picture was listed simply as "Cha...

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Latouche, 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Mme. Bureau [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mrs. S. D. Warren Sale, American Art Association, New York, 1903, no. 110; H. Williams [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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