Live Auction 17034American Art
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
Lot 64

Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)

After the Battle: The Scalp Lock

Closed22 May 2019

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Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
After the Battle: The Scalp Lock
signed with initials in monogram 'AJM' and inscribed with title (lower left)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper laid down on paper
9 ½ x 7 ½ in. (24.1 x 19 cm.)
Executed circa 1858.

Private collection, 1933.
Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1996, lot 120, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present work is likely a study for Alfred Jacob Miller's watercolor The Scalp-Lock in the collection of The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. A related oil painting titled The Scalplock is in the collection of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado.