Young Girl Behind Doorway

Artist Lilly Martin Spencer American, born England, 1822–1902

Date1873

MediumOil on board

Dimensionsheight and width: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
frame: 22 1/2 × 19 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (57.2 × 48.9 × 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number2023.23.1

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ProvenancePrivate collection, Pennsylvania; [Sale: Freeman’s Philadelphia, Collect: American Art, December 6, 2022, lot 10]; Private collection, New York; [Debra Force Fine Art, Inc.]; Sold to NCMA, December 2023.Published References(possibly) Robin Bolton-Smith and William H. Truettner, Lilly Martin Spencer, 1822–1902: The Joys of Sentiment (Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1973), p. 199 (as The Remedy Worse Than the Evil).

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