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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1948.15.7
People
Cecilia Beaux, American (Philadelphia, PA 1855 - 1942 Philadelphia, PA)
Title
Study for the Portrait of Catherine Eddy Beveridge (Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1913
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229504

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvasboard
Dimensions
22.6 x 17.8 cm (8 7/8 x 7 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back of board, black ink, in artist's hand: Sketch for / Mrs. -- Beveridge / Wife of the Senator / C.B.
  • stamp: back of board, purple ink, stamped: [illeg.]
  • inscription: back of board, graphite: 7 x 9

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent from the artist to her nephew, Dr. Cecil K. Drinker; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Cecil K. Drinker
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
1948.15.7
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Paintings and Drawings of Cecilia Beaux, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1955), p. 21
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 39, cat. no. 8

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