Boy Asleep
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1833
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 x 11 in. ( 33 x 27.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.67
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
22462
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Wreath of Flowers Encircling the Coat-of-Arms and Miniature of The Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.
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Classification:
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Date:
1658
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 45 x 34 x 1 in. ( 114.3 x 86.4 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.35
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1658
eMuseum Object ID:
22461
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The Chess-Players -- Check Mate
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1836
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 43 1/4 x 56 1/4 in. ( 109.9 x 142.9 cm )
Framed: 50 in. × 70 1/8 in. × 4 3/8 in. (127 × 178.1 × 11.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.12
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1836
eMuseum Object ID:
22460
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Engagement Between the U.S. Frigate "Constitution" and H.M.S. "Java"
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Date:
1896
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 × 36 in. (61 × 91.4 cm)
Framed: 37 3/4 × 49 1/2 × 5 5/8 in. (95.9 × 125.7 × 14.3 cm)
Description:
Marine view depicting the engagement between the U.S. Constitution and the H.M.S. Java; the Java has lost her foremast and main topmast;the Java on the left side of the composition has a British flag flying from her only remaining mast, her mizzen mast; the pieces topmast and the foremast float alongside the Java; the frigate on the right, the Constitution, has the American flag flying and is fully intact.
Credit Line:
The Naval History Society Collection (John Sanford Barnes Foundation)
Object Number:
1925.114
Marks:
signed and dated: in lower right corner: "Carlton T. Chapman/1896"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1896
eMuseum Object ID:
22405
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Bargaining for a Horse (Farmers Bargaining)
Classification:
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Date:
1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 30 in. ( 61 x 76.2 cm )
Framed: 35 1/2 × 41 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (90.2 × 105.4 × 14 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.59
Gallery Label:
Bargaining for a Horse, which was painted for the New York collector and art patron, Luman Reed, is perhaps Mount's best-known canvas, and was called Farmers Bargaining by Reed and was exhibited under that title at the National Academy in 1836.
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography:
"National Academy of Design," The Evening Post, [New York], April 27, 1836, p. 2.
"National Academy," The New York Herald, May 17, 1936, p. 1.
"National Academy of Design," The Evening Post, [New York], May 25, 1836, p. 2.
"The Fine Arts. National Academy of Design," The New-York Mirror, Vol. 13, June 25, 1836, p. 414.
"Editor's Table," The Knickerbocker, 8, July, 1836, p. 115.
Leslie, Eliza, The Gift: a Christmas and New Year's present, Philadelphia: Cary & Hart, 1839, plate opposite p. 256.
Tuckerman, Henry T., Book of the Artists. American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists, preceded by an historical account of the rise and progress of art in America, New York: G.P. Putnam & Son, 1867, pp. 420-1.
The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 3, October, 1920, p. 86.
"Mount's 'Bargaining for a Horse,'" Technical Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 1, July, 1939, n.p.
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, William Sidney Mount, 1807-1868, an American Painter, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944, pp. 16-7, 25-6, 39, 41.
"William Sidney Mount: Painter Made Long Island His Italy," Life, June 25, 1945, pp. 64-8.
Wright, Nathalia, Letters of Horatio Greenough American Sculptor, Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972, pp. 205-6.
Frankenstein, Alfred, William Sidney Mount, 1807-1868, New York: Abrams, 1974, pp. 27, 69-72, 74-6, 94, 117, 149, 153, 158, 164, 166-8, 177-8, 184-5, 200, 266-8, 469, 473.
Lynes, Russell, "Luman Reed: A New York Patron," Apollo Magazine, February 1978, pp. 124-29.
Hoover, Catherine, "The Influence of David Wilkie's Prints on the Genre Paintings of William Sidney Mount," American Art Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer 1981, pp. 5-33.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 393-401.
Cassedy, David, and Shrott, Gail, William Sidney Mount: Works in the Collection of the Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY: The Museums at Stony Brook, 1983, pp. 18-9.
Johns, Elizabeth, "The Farmer in the Works of William Sidney Mount," Art and History: Images and Their Meaning, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 257-81.
Johnson, Deborah H., William Sidney Mount: Painter of American Life, New York, The American Federation of Arts, 1998, pp. 12-3, 36-8, 81-2, 113, 116, 118, 120, 130, 136, 144, 149.
Weinberg, H. Barbara, and Barratt, Carrie Rebora, eds., American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009, pp. 35-6, 72.
Gallati, Barbara Dayer, "American Genre painting and the Rise of 'Average Taste,'" The Magazine Antiques, November/December, 2011, pp. 134-141.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
22396
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View of the Hudson Highlands from Ruggles House, Newburgh, N.Y.
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Date:
1838
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 7/8 x 21 in. ( 42.9 x 53.3 cm )
frame: 21 3/4 x 26 x 2 in. (55.2 x 66 x 5.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of the Collection of Waldron Phoenix Belknap
Object Number:
1952.95
Gallery Label:
This view of the Hudson Highlands by Cornell was based on an engraving by Robert Brandard after the original done in 1836 by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1838
eMuseum Object ID:
22395
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Copy of The Blind Man Duped (L'Aveugle Dupe)
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Date:
after 1755
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 30 in. ( 91.4 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.261
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1755
eMuseum Object ID:
22385
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Incantation Scene
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1650-1700
Medium:
Oil on copper mounted on masonite
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 1/2 x 20 in. ( 36.8 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.175
Bibliography:
Olson, Roberta J. M. "A selection of European paintings and objects." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 182-187.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1700
eMuseum Object ID:
22384
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Chief Three Eagles, Sioux Tribe.
Classification:
Medium:
oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. ( 34.3 x 28.6 cm )
Object Number:
1934.17
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
22338
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The Durand Children
Classification:
Date:
1832
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/2 x 29 in. ( 92.7 x 73.7 cm )
Framed: 49 3/4 × 42 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (126.4 × 108.6 × 12.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of the children of the artist, through John Durand
Object Number:
1903.2
Gallery Label:
John, Caroline, and Lucy M. Durand were the children of Asher B. Durand and his first wife, Lucy (Baldwin) Durand. According to a letter in the Durand Papers (Manuscript Division, New York Public Library), this group portrait was painted in the summer of 1832.
Bibliography:
Morris, G. P., ed., "The Fine Arts: National Academy of Design," The New-York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. X, June 29, 1833, p. 410.
Durand, John, The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894; Reprint, Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 2007), pp. 98-9.
"Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 39.
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp. 43-4, 107-8, 110-20, 132-3, 188-91, 194-6, 233-4, 340, 602-7, 609.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. I, 1974, pp. 237-8.
Smith, Alvy Ray, compiled by, Dr. John Durand (1664-1727) of Derby Connecticut: His Family Through Four Generations Featuring the Branch of His Youngest Son Ebenezer Durand Through Ten Generations to 2003, Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2003, pp. 223-4.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter," Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 58-9, 61, 64, 80-1, 130, 201.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1832
eMuseum Object ID:
22337
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