2008.34: A Gentleman

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

Permissions

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• Frederic Fairchild Sherman, "Heretofore Unpublished Miniatures by James Peale", Art In America (Springfield, MA, 1936), vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 162-165, p. 162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

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