Two Birds | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1950.44
People: Louis Michel Eilshemius, American (North Arlington, NJ 1864 - 1941 New York, NY)
Title: Two Birds
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 19th-20th century
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/228860

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

69.2 x 53 cm (27 1/4 x 20 7/8 in.)
framed: 81.6 x 65.4 x 3.5 cm (32 1/8 x 25 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r.: Eilshemius

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: James Naumberg Rosenberg; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1950.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Accession Year: 1950
Object Number: 1950.44
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints: Works of Art Collected by - Painted by - James Rosenberg, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1990), no. 12
Stefan Banz, Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters, JRP Ringer (Zurich, 2015), p. 447, repr.

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints: Works of Art Collected by - Painted by - James N. Rosenberg, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1950 - 05/03/1950

Verification Level

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1950.44: Two Birds