Juliet Paradise (b. 1806)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815-1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. ( 39.1 x 30.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Thomas F. Paradise in memory of her husband, Thomas Faulkner Peers Paradise
Object Number:
1948.126
Gallery Label:
The subject was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Stout) Paradise and the sister of Aaron Kirk and John Wesley Paradise. Her portrait is a companion to that of her brother Aaron.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
19110
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
St. Nicholas
Classification:
Date:
1837
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 3/8 in. ( 76.2 x 64.5 cm )
Frame: 34 7/8 x 29 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (88.6 x 74.9 x 6.4 cm)
Description:
A small dwarf-like Santa Claus with white moustache and eyebrows retreats, laughing, into a fireplace looking back over his right shoulder, his right arm extended, his left hand raised near his face; he wears a short red cape lined with white fur, its hood over his head, a white clay pipe attached to its front; he wears a brown jacket with dark piping under the cape and brown pants tucked into loose brown knee-high leather boots; a set of black rosary beads suspended from his belt under his cape; o n his back he carries a rattan satchel overflowing with toys; the blue-tiled fireplace hung with three stockings; fire tools on either side of hearth; andiron in the form of crouching men supporting brass balls, a brass kettle on stand at lower right of fireplace; on the floor a partially peedled and cut orange and a broken clay pipe; to the right a pewter flagon, an armchair and a pair of men's black slippers with red bows; at lower left an overtunred stoo; over the mantle a large coat-of0arms.
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1951.76
Inscriptions:
Initials of the artist's sons are on the stockings: W.W. [Walter Weir] and R.W. [Robert Weir]
Bibliography:
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:
1837
eMuseum Object ID:
19102
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Carlota, Empress of Mexico (1840-1927)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1860-70
Medium:
Oil on linen (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 44 x 36 3/8 in. ( 111.8 x 92.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Parthenia T. Norton
Object Number:
1892.6
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
19098
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1860-70
Medium:
Oil on linen (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 44 x 36 3/4 in. ( 111.8 x 93.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Parthenia T. Norton
Object Number:
1892.5
Gallery Label:
A portrait resembling this one has been attributed to Santiago Rebull, court painter to Maximilian from 1860 onwards (see Fernandez, "El Arte Moderno en Mexico," 1937, p. 104).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
19097
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Green Dragon Tavern, Boston
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 28 in. ( 55.9 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore, the artist
Object Number:
1937.1637
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
19096
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Henry Brockholst Livingston (1761-1804)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 26 x 22 in. ( 66 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John A. Devereux
Object Number:
1935.86
Gallery Label:
The subject, née Katherine Keteltas, was the first wife of Brockholst Livingston. Her portrait was a gift to the society from her great-grandson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
19094
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
A Pleasure Party, Switzerland
Classification:
Date:
1874
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 1/8 x 27 7/8 x 3/8 in. ( 51.1 x 70.8 x 1 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-133
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower left: E. Boutibonne 1874
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1874
eMuseum Object ID:
19093
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Trees by a Meadow
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. ( 21.9 x 17.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.233
Gallery Label:
This is a fragment cut from a larger picture.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
19092
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
View of the Shandaken Mountains, New York
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1853
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall (linen): 16 x 24 x 1 in. (40.6 x 61 x 2.5 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 x 30 x 3 in. (22 1/2 x 30 x 3 in.)
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.21
Marks:
Stencil on stretcher: "684"; stencil on canvas reverse: "PREPARED / BY / EDW DECHAUS / NEW-YORK"; reverse canvas inscribed in pen: "TO LUCY FROM HER FATHER / JANY. 1, 1854 / VIEW OF SHANDAKEN MOUNTAIN"
Bibliography:
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, p. 247.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 185.
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. 332.
For Spacious Skies: Hudson River School Paintings from the Henry and Sharon Martin Collection, New Britain, Connecticut: New Britain Museum of American Art, 2005, pp. 32-3, 82-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1853
eMuseum Object ID:
19091
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Black Mountains, Lake George, New York
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1878
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/4 x 24 1/4 in. (38.7 x 61.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.11
Bibliography:
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 19, no. 295.
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. 264, 381-5, 664-5, Figs. 138-9.
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. 362.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1878
eMuseum Object ID:
19090
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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