Devotion (Contemplation)

Description A woman, wearing a nightgown with her shoulder exposed, places a strand of rosary beads on a devotional image mounted on the wall beside her bed. In this instance Plassan suggests a late 17th-century interior, showing a high-backed chair upholstered in needlepoint and a Spanish embossed leather wall-covering.

Provenance William T. Walters, Baltimore, December 5, 1863, by commission [payment made on April 9, 1864]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] At lower right in block letters: PLASSAN; [Number] On reverse of frame: no. 48

Credit Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1863