Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed
Alternate Title(s):Sir Launcelot and the Dead Queen Guenevere
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1917
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., 1992
Accession number: 92.8.5
Research Number: NCW: 232
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH; Lower right: © CSS; on reverse on canvas, lower left: Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons; on stretcher, remnants of Scribner's label: (illegible) B1(?)937 / Visage and sighed" / THE BOY / facing p. 316 / Pub. Oct. 1917 / THIS COPYRIGHTED PICTURE . . .
ProvenanceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917-1975; Collection of Mr. and Mrs. S. Halllock du Pont, Jr., 1975-1991
Exhibition HistoryBrooklyn, NY, 1920, no. 10 as "Sir Launcelot and the Dead Queen Guenevere"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Princeton, NJ, 1977, no. 23
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 209; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.674, p. 352
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds the copy of the Boy's King Arthur that Wyeth read in preparation for this commission (NCWS.95.171, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Illustrations by Alfred Kappes) and marked with notes as he selected the incidents to picture.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 11/2002