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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.30
People
Frank Duveneck, American (Covington, KY 1848 - 1919 Cincinnati, OH)
Title
Study of a Woman's Head
Other Titles
Former Title: Study of Mrs. Jack Gardner
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1879-1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230428

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
41.9 x 31.1 cm (16 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.)
framed: 66.7 x 57.8 x 9.5 cm (26 1/4 x 22 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given by the artist to Theodore Wendel; sold to the Fogg through the Robert Vose Galleries, Boston, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.30
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 95, ill.
  • 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. 93, cat. no. 62, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • The American Spirit in Portraiture, 1675 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, 01/19/1951 - 02/24/1951
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • An American Painter Abroad: Frank Duveneck's European Years, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 10/03/1987 - 01/03/1988

Verification Level

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