Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
Classification:
Date:
1825
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the New York Gallery of Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.65
Marks:
Inscription: Verso: "AN ORIGINAL PORTRAIT OF LA FAYETTE BY CHARLES C. INGHAM 1823"
Gallery Label:
This is the original portrait painted from life when Lafayette made his visit to the United States in 1824-25, and from which Ingham painted his full-length portrait of the subject which was placed in the State House in Albany, following the passage of a resolution accepting the portrait in the state assembly on February 15, 1825.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1866, p. 8.
Champlin, John Denison, Jr., ed., Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Vol. II, p. 314.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1915, p. 11.
Kelby, William, Notes on American Artists 1754-1820, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1922, p. 66.
"The Centennial of General Lafayette's Visit to America in 1824, and the Action of the New-York Historical Society on that Occasion," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 3, October 1924, pp. 73-8.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941, pp. 175.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis, American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, p. 281.
Vail, R.W.G., "Lafayette Joins the Society," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly, New York: The New-York Historical Society, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3, July 1954, p. 236.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 1, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 435-6.
Mann, Maybelle, "The New-York Gallery of Fine Arts: "A Source of Refinement," American Art Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 1979, pp. 76-86.
Idzerda, Stanley J., Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds: The Art and Pageantry of His Farewell Tour of America, 1824-1825, Flushing, NY: The Queens Museum, 1989, pp. 134, 193.
Carbone, Teresa A., American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born in 1876, New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, Vol. 3, p. 674.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
22083
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Philip Schuyler (1790-1855)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/2 x 7 in. ( 21.6 x 17.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Lucille de Luze Foley
Object Number:
1950.25
Gallery Label:
Grace Hunter was the youngest daughter of Robert Hunter and Ruth (Breck or Brick) Hunter. She was married to Philip Schuyler in New York on September 12, 1811.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
22074
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Liberty Street Ferry, Erie Railroad, N. Y. C.
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1940
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 30 in. ( 63.5 x 76.2 cm )
Description:
This is view west across the Hudson River toward New Jersey.
Credit Line:
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number:
1941.900
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, lower right: "Silvio Valerio"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
22069
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Soldiers Resting, Blois
Classification:
Date:
1876
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/8 x 21 x 5/8 in. ( 38.4 x 53.3 x 1.6 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-2
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
22066
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tenth Street, NYC
Classification:
Date:
1923
Medium:
Oil on drawing board
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 8 in. ( 25.4 x 20.3 cm )
Frame: 15 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (40 x 34.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Howard Thain
Object Number:
1963.146
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1923
eMuseum Object ID:
22062
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Secret
Classification:
Date:
1876
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 51 1/2 x 38 1/4 x 7/8 in. ( 130.8 x 97.2 x 2.2 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-176
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower left: W. Bouguereau 1876.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
22060
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mill Grove Farm, Perkiomen Creek, Pennsylvania
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1820-1830
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 1/4 x 24 3/8 x 1/4 in. ( 41.3 x 61.9 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
View shows the stone farm house on the hill, and in the foreground the dam and millrace on Perkiomen Creek, which furnished power for the grist and lumber mills and a lead mine.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1946.161
Marks:
inscriptions: not signed
Gallery Label:
This colonial landmark in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was the first American home of the famous ornithologist and artist John James Audubon (1785-1851), who occupied the farm from 1804-1805. In 1813 the property was purchased by Samule Wetherill, Jr. Except for a brief period from 1876-1892, the farm remained in the Wetherill family until 1951, when it was acquired by the commissioners of Montgomery County.
Provenance:
The Old Print Shop, New York, NY, 1944
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
22009
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Anna Fryer Armitage
Classification:
Date:
n.d
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 23 7/8 in. ( 76.2 x 60.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Cynthia Fraser
Object Number:
1986.20
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
22008
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Townsend's Meadow Mouse, Meadow Vole and Swamp Rice Rat (or Rice Meadow House)
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 7/8 x 27 7/8 x 7/8 in. ( 55.6 x 70.8 x 2.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Archer Milton Huntington
Object Number:
1909.15
Marks:
inscribed: "Avricola Townsendii, A. Naza...[illegible], Miis RIPARIAS BACH"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
22007
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James Pine (ca. 1810-1880)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1880
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:
1951.40
Marks:
inscription: on stretcher: "James Pine / Painted by himself"
Gallery Label:
A portrait painter, James Pine was active in New York and in New Jersey in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
22000
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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