A Gentleman | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2008.34
People: James Peale, American (Chestertown, MD 1749 - 1831 Philadelphia, PA)
Title: A Gentleman
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1789
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/323718

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on ivory

Dimensions

oval; framed: 4.8 x 4.1 cm (1 7/8 x 1 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: r.c.: I P/ 1789

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Private collection, United States; Bonham's, London, Sale of 21 November 2007, lot 302.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Daniel A. Pollack, Class of 1960, American Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Year: 2008
Object Number: 2008.34
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Frederic Fairchild Sherman, "Heretofore Unpublished Miniatures by James Peale", Art In America (Springfield, MA, 1936), vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 162-165, p. 162
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. 388-90, cat. 351, ill.

Exhibition History

GenEd US12 American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860 (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012

Verification Level

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2008.34: A Gentleman