The Three Knights "It is very fitting," said Chandos, "that we should be companions, Nigel, for since you have tied up one of your eyes, we have but a pair between us."

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

The Three Knights
"It is very fitting," said Chandos, "that we should be companions, Nigel, for since you have tied up one of your eyes, we have but a pair between us."

Medium: Oil on canvas

Date: 1922

Dimensions:

dimensions unavailable

known by reproduction only

Accession number: SUPP2000.1757

Research Number: NCW: 1757

InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) (from reproduction)

ProvenanceThe artist

References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 204; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.920, p. 442

Curatorial RemarksSee letter NCW to Sidney M. Chase, Aug. 3, 1922, "The reading of the Chronicles of Froissart (all of them) was a very bright spot in the preparation of The White Company" (letter, Wyeth Family Archives, and see two copies of The Chronicles illustrated by Alfred Knapp, NCWS.95. 3424 and .4319, Brandywine River Museum). All images for The White Company were copyrighted by the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation.
"For years we had on our reading list Conan Doyle's White Company, but the only copy in the library was a small, drab-colored book with fine print and no pictures. This past year we have had a copy of the lovely new edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, a rather large book with good-sized print and beautiful pictures." From Ruth Teuscher, "Illustrated Books for Boys and Girls," The English Journal, vol. XVI, no. 8 (Oct. 1927), p. 606

Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency from tear sheet

Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 12/2004

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The Three Knights "It is very fitting," said Chandos, "that we should be companions, Nigel, for since you have tied up one of your eyes, we have but a pair between us."

N.C. Wyeth

The Three Knights"It is very fitting," said Chandos, "that we should be companions, Nigel, for since you have tied up one of your eyes, we have but a pair between us."

The Three Knights
"It is very fitting," said Chandos, "that we should be companions, Nigel, for since you have tied up one of your eyes, we have but a pair between us."