7.1955: Rebecca at the Well
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 7.1955
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Rebecca at the Well
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Jacob and Rebecca at the Well
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1816
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/232800
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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77.6 x 92.9 cm (30 9/16 x 36 9/16 in.)
frame: 104.8 x 120.7 x 12.7 cm (41 1/4 x 47 1/2 x 5 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: W. Allston, 1816
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Purchased from the artist by Myndert van Schaick, New York, NY, 1816; purchased by the Washington Allston Trust (Dana Collection), 1915.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
- Object Number
- 7.1955
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Washington Irving, The Life and Letters of Washington Irving, Volume I, ed. Pierre M. Irving, G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York), p. 267
- Moses Foster Sweetser, Allston (Boston, MA, 1879), pp. 79, 189
- "McMaster's History of the People of the United States", The Dial (April 1883), vol. III, no. 36, pp. 270-272, p. 271
- Edgar P. Richardson, American Romantic Painting, ed. Robert Freund, E. Weyhe (New York, NY, 1944), p. 24, no. 18., ill.
- Frank Weitenkampf, "Early American Landscape Prints", The Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Winter 1945), vol. VIII, no. 1, pp. 40-68, p. 53
- Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), pp. 116, 177, 200, no. 92, pl. XXXIV
- Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union: Exhibition Record, 1816-1852, New York Historical Society (New York, NY, 1953), p. 5
- Thomas W. Leavitt, "The Disposition of the Washington Allston Trust", The Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Winter 1956), vol. XIX, no. 4, pp. 415-417, pp. 415-416
- William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), pp. 74, 93, 102, 165, 229, cat. 36, ill.
- Elizabeth Johns, "Washington Allston's Later Career: Art About the Making of Art", Arts Magazine (December 1979), vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 122-129, p. 126
- Nathalia Wright, ed., The Correspondence of Washington Allston, The University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY, 1993), pp. 96-97, 101, 530, 579, 582, 605
- John Caldwell, Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, and Dale T. Johnson, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815, ed. Kathleen Luhrs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York, NY and Princeton, NJ, 1994), p. 293
- David B. Dearinger, ed., Rave Reviews: American Art and Its Critics, exh. cat., National Academy of Design and University Press of New England (New York, NY, Hanover, NH and London, England, 2000), p. 59, fig. 28
- Maura Lyons, William Dunlap and the Construction of an American Art History, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA, 2005), pp. 150, 154, fig. 29
- 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. 59-60, cat. 16, ill.
Exhibition History
- 1817 Exhibition, American Academy of Fine Arts, 01/01/1817 - 12/31/1817
- 1823 Exhibition, American Academy of Fine Arts, 01/01/1823 - 12/31/1823
- "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980
Verification Level
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