Penseroso

1865

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: oil on wood
Dimensions: overall: 16.51 × 14.29 cm (6 1/2 × 5 5/8 in.) framed: 27.94 × 42.23 × 3.81 cm (11 × 16 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Collection no.: 2015.19.115
Attribution: By the artist

About this artwork

Penseroso — John George Brown. 1865.

Medium: oil on wood.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 16.51 × 14.29 cm (6 1/2 × 5 5/8 in.) framed: 27.94 × 42.23 × 3.81 cm (11 × 16 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.115. Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869).

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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