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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.135
People
George Linen, American (Greenlaw, Scotland 1802 - 1888 New York, NY)
Previously attributed to Henry Inman, American (Utica, NY 1801 - 1846 New York, NY)
Title
Josephine Marie Henriette Pascault Gallatin (Mrs. James Gallatin) (1801-1885) and her son, Albert Gallatin II (1830-1930)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1837-1840
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230413

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
27.3 x 21 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
framed: 37.8 x 31.1 x 3.8 cm (14 7/8 x 12 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed on verso: L 2758.1 [Loan number from the Museum of the City of New York, per Wade White.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dorothy (Mrs. Francis) Gallatin; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Cone, New York, NY; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.135
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 11
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 340-41, cat. 303, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Museum of the City of New York, 1940, Museum of the City of New York, New York, 11/01/1939 - 03/01/1940
  • Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948

Verification Level

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