Faith and Charity

John La Farge, artist

1835–1910

Faith and Charity, circa 1892

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: watercolor; graphite; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8.4 x 7.3 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 3 5/16 x 2 7/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 13.6 x 7.6 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 5 3/8 x 3 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 11 in

Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial

Accession number: 0000.0171

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While the iridescent robes that envelop these female personifications of Faith and Charity allude to La Farge’s love of the layers of color in Japanese woodcut prints, the ornate niches in which the figures stand incorporate the delicate tracery and pointed forms of Gothic architecture. Similar to a window that La Farge created as a memorial to Francis Peabody and Martha Endicott Peabody in 1893 and installed in the Neo-Gothic First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, this design may have engaged in a stylistic dialogue with the Gothic Revival space for which it was intended.