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Studies for "The Wise and Foolish Virgins" [recto]
1880
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- red chalk and red chalk counterproof on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 34.9 x 25.8 cm (13 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.52.146.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Sir William Blake Richmond. Studies for "The Wise and Foolish Virgins" [recto]. Sir William Blake Richmond; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_William_Blake_Richmond,_Studies_for_%22The_Wise_and_Foolish_Virgins%22_(recto),_NGA_76126.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Studies for "The Wise and Foolish Virgins" [recto] — Sir William Blake Richmond. 1880.
Medium: red chalk and red chalk counterproof on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 34.9 x 25.8 cm (13 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.52.146.a. Gift of William B. O'Neal.
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.