The Poet

Classification: 
Date: 
1881
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 
Overall: 24 x 39 7/8 x 7/8 in. ( 61 x 101.3 x 2.2 cm )
Credit Line: 
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number: 
S-6
Marks: 
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower left: Luis Jimenez, Paris 1881
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1881
eMuseum Object ID: 
22183
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Charging the Battery

Classification: 
Date: 
1882
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 
Overall: 36 x 44 in. ( 91.4 x 111.8 cm ) frame: 54 x 62 x 5 in. ( 137.2 x 157.5 x 12.7 cm )
Description: 
Text accompanying the painting when it was exhibited at the National Academy of Design, in 1882, reads: "A night attack made by Uniion troops on a rebel battery placed in a narrow mountain-roadway. The captain gives the command through the bugler, encouraging the men forward. Numbers of the wounded have crawled behind projecting rocks out of the line of fire. The scene is full of most vigorous action. It is a monlight night, and there is also a bright light from the flashing of the guns of the battery."
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Donald Anderson
Object Number: 
1954.111
Marks: 
Signed, dated, upper right: Gilbert Gaul, 1882
Bibliography: 
"Drawing Room. Fifty Seventh Academy," The Art Interchange, March 30, 1882, p. 74. "The Fifty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Paintings," New York Herald, March 24, 1882, n.p. "The National Academy of Design," Harper's Weekly, March 25, 1882, pp, 187, 189. "The National Academy Exhibition," The New York Sun, March 26, 1882, p. 1. "National Academy of Design," The New York Mirror, April 8, 1882, p. 4. "The Fine Arts. National Academy. Fifty-Seventh Exhibition," The Critic, April 8, 1882, p. 104. "The National Academy Exhibition," The Art Amateur, May 1882, pp. 116-8. "Art Notes. New York-Academy of Design," The Art Journal, June, 1882, pp. 189-90. "The Studio. Fifty-Sixth Academy," The Art Interchange, July 27, 1882, p. 103 Naylor, Maria, Ed., The National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1861-1900, New York: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1973 pp.329-30 Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 61. Blaugrund, Annette, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1989, n.p.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1882
eMuseum Object ID: 
22181
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Landscape Composition: Helicon and Aganippe (Allegorical Landscape of New York University)

Classification: 
Date: 
1836
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 
Overall (canvas): 22 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. (57.2 x 92.1 cm) Frame: 29 x 42 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (29 x 42 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
Description: 
Incorporated in this allegorical landscape is a view of the new building of the University of the City of New York (now New York University) on the east side of Washington Square, between Washington place and Waverley Place.
Credit Line: 
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number: 
1917.3
Marks: 
inscriptions: Not signed.
Gallery Label: 
Eucleian Society of the University of the City of New York; Alfred S. Vail; Mrs. Amanda (Eno) Vail.
Bibliography: 
Geld, Elizabeth and Stuart P., In Pointed Style: The Gothic Revival in America, 1800-1860, New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 47, 144. Danziger, Elon, "A University Building for New York," Burlington Magazine, July 2008, pp. 444-51.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1836
eMuseum Object ID: 
22180
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Portrait of a Lady Sleeping

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1834
Medium: 
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions: 
Overall: 24 x 19 in. ( 61 x 48.3 cm )
Credit Line: 
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number: 
1858.20
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: 
1834
eMuseum Object ID: 
22176
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Theodore E. Pine (1828-1905)

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1870
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 
Overall: 27 x 22 in. ( 68.6 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Methodist Historical Society
Object Number: 
1951.39
Marks: 
inscription: on stretcher: "James Pine / Painted by himself"
Gallery Label: 
Theodore Pine, son of the artist James Pine, was active in New York and also in Chicago, St. Louis, Asheville, North Carolina, and Manitou, Colorado, in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1870
eMuseum Object ID: 
22170
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The Pedler (The Pedlar Displaying His Wares)

Classification: 
Date: 
1836
Medium: 
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions: 
Overall: 24 x 34 1/2 in. ( 61 x 87.6 cm ) Framed: 34 1/2 in. × 45 in. × 3 1/2 in. (87.6 × 114.3 × 8.9 cm)
Credit Line: 
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number: 
1858.26
Gallery Label: 
This work was painted for Luman Reed of New York. In a letter to his son John Durand, February 14, 1836. Preparatory figure sketches for this painting are in Durand's sketchbook, 1835-1836, also in the Society's collection, and in a sketchbook owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, given by Miss Frederic F. Durand.
Provenance: 
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography: 
Durand, Asher B., Letter to John Durand, dated February 14, 1836, in the collection of Durand Papers at the New York Public Library. "National Academy," The NY Herald, May 19, 1836, p.1, col. 2. "National Academy of Design," The New York Evening Post, May 25, 1836, p. 2. "Editor's Table," The Knickerbocker, Vol. III, July 1836, pp. 115. 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: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, p. 621. Kurtz, Charles M., ed., American Academy Notes. 1881: With Illustrations of 122 of the Principal Pictures in the Fifty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, 93 being Photo-Engraved Reproductions of Sketches by the Artists Themselves, New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881, p. 44. "An Aged Artist," The Studio: a Weekly Journal of the Fine Arts, New York, August 1883, p. 62. Huntington, Daniel, Asher B. Durand: A Memorial Address, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887, p. 26. Durand, John, The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894; Reprint, Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 2007), p. 120. "Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34. 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. 4, 5, 68, 171-191, 215, 282, 389-90, 618-20, Appendix II, p. 68. A. B. Durand 1796-1886, Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum Catalogue, October 24 - November 28, 1971, p. 25. Williams, Jr., Hermann Warner, Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American Genre Painting: 1750-1900, Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1971, p. 62. Wright, Nathalia, ed., Letters of Horatio Greenough American Sculptor, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972, p. 205-6. Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 7, xiii, xviii. 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. 303-4. Clark, H. Nichols B., Francis W. Edmonds: American Master in the Dutch Tradition, Washington: Published for the Amon Carter Museum by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, pp. 76-9. Foshay, Ella M., Mr. Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 43-5, 63, 88, 148-9, 202-5, 209. Lyons, Maura, William Dunlap and the Construction of an American Art History, Amherst & Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 2005, pp. 147-66. Carbone, Teresa A., American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876, Brooklyn Museum, 2006, Vol. I, p. 477. Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter," Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 74, 77-8, 81, 208, Chronology. 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: 
1836
eMuseum Object ID: 
22135
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Castle of Ostia Seen from the Pine Forest of Castel Fusano

Collections: 
Classification: 
Date: 
1881
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 
Overall: 25 1/2 x 71 in. ( 64.8 x 180.3 cm ) Frame: 33 1/2 x 79 x 3 in. (85.1 x 200.7 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line: 
Purchase, Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund
Object Number: 
1992.11
Gallery Label: 
See accession file.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1881
eMuseum Object ID: 
22134
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Tontine Coffee House, N.Y.C.

Collections: 
Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1797
Medium: 
Oil on linen, lined to fiberglass
Dimensions: 
Canvas: 43 x 65 x 2 in. ( 109.2 x 165.1 x 5.1 cm ) Frame: 54 1/2 x 77 1/8 x 5 1/16 in. (138.4 x 195.9 x 12.9 cm)
Description: 
N-YHS Museum Collection
Credit Line: 
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number: 
1907.32
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1797
eMuseum Object ID: 
22133
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Poems by William Cowper

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1890-1905
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 
canvas: 8 x 10 in. ( 20.3 x 25.4 cm ) frame: 14 x 16 x 1 1/2 in. ( 35.6 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm )
Description: 
Scene depicts a book of poems by William Cowper, a volume of William Shakespeare, several unidentified books, a pipe, a match and an iridescent vase in which the artist's studio is reflected.
Credit Line: 
Purchase, Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund
Object Number: 
1990.6
Marks: 
inscriptions: Signed, lower right: Claude Raguet Hirst NY.
Gallery Label: 
Said to have come from a home in the Boston area.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1905
eMuseum Object ID: 
22131
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The Cavalier's Return

Classification: 
Date: 
1847
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 
Overall: 28 1/2 x 30 in. (72.4 x 76.2 cm) Frame: 39 1/2 x 41 1/2 x 4 in. (39 1/2 x 41 1/2 x 4 in.)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Kate Warner
Object Number: 
1914.2
Bibliography: 
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: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, pp. 408-10. Greenhouse, Wendy, The American Portrayal of Tudor and Stuart History, 1835-1865, Vol. I, A Dissertation Presented to the Faulty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, May 1989, p. 291. Johns, Elizabeth, American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, p. 241 Heyrman, Joy Peterson, ed. New Eyes on America The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville. Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2012.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1847
eMuseum Object ID: 
22130
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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