The Jewel Merchant
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 7/8 x 10 5/16 x 1/4 in. ( 35.2 x 26.2 x 0.6 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-41
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower right: Stroebel
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
18916
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Setting the Clock
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 13/16 x 7 3/16 x 1/4 in. ( 24.9 x 18.3 x 0.6 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-32
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower left: Duverger
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
18915
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Springtime
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1856
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 39 5/8 x 58 1/4 in. ( 100.6 x 148 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-100
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower right: Gignoux 1856
Bibliography:
Holzer, Harold and The New-York Historical Society. "The Civil War in 50 Objects." New York: Viking, 2013.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1856
eMuseum Object ID:
18913
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Lake George and the Village of Caldwell
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 29 3/4 in. ( 55.9 x 75.6 cm )
frame: 26 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (67.3 x 87.6 x 7 cm)
Description:
Landscape with view of the Hudson River; city of Kingston in the background.
Credit Line:
Purchase, Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund
Object Number:
1977.13
Gallery Label:
Chambers’s boldly hued landscapes were often modeled freely after engravings of tourist attractions and he painted several versions of this sprightly view of Lake George and Caldwell, showing the dramatic setting of the village at the southern end of the lake. Lake George was one of the most popular resorts in the nineteenth century. This glacially formed body of water, some thirty-four miles long, is situated at the eastern edge of the Adirondack Mountains. Chambers’s view of Caldwell documents that popularity as well as the exhilarating combination of mountain and lake terrain that still draws visitors today.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
18910
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Asher B. Durand (1796-1886)
Classification:
Date:
1826
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Sight: 25 1/16 × 20 5/8 in. (63.7 × 52.4 cm)
Unframed: 25 1/4 × 20 3/4 in. (64.1 × 52.7 cm)
Framed: 37 in. × 32
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1895.13
Marks:
label: on back: "Asher Brown Durand / John Trumbull 1820 / John Durand / 162 Boul. Montparnasse / Paris France"
Gallery Label:
The date for this portrait of 1826 is based on John Durand's statement in his biography of his father; the date of 1820 given on the label is apparently erroneous.
Bibliography:
Lessing, Benson J., "The National Academy of the Arts of Design, and its Surviving Founders," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 66, n. 196, May 1883, pp. 860-1.
Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, Early American Portraiture, New York: Privately Printed, 1930, pp. 38-41.
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. 557-8, 697.
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 4, 29.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 2, 1974, p. 235.
Jaffe, Irma B., John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975, pp. 238-40, 308
Cooper, Helen A., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter, New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982, p. 124.
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, p. 212.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter," Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 48-9, 80.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1826
eMuseum Object ID:
18909
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Alexander Baring, Lord Ashburton
Classification:
Date:
1842
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan
Object Number:
1888.2
Gallery Label:
In 1842 Daniel Webster, as secretary of state, concluded the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain, settling the dispute over the boundary of Maine and Canada. That year George P. A. Healy painted a portrait of Webster, who persuaded Lord Ashburton to pose for a companion portrait. The originals were probably destroyed in a fire that consumed the Webster home in 1878; the Society's portraits are replicas of those lost originals.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1842
eMuseum Object ID:
18908
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Trees by the Brookside, Kingston, N.Y.
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1846
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 17 x 1 in. ( 55.9 x 43.2 x 2.5 cm )
Framed: 30 5/8 in. × 26 in. × 3 in. (77.8 × 66 × 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1887.6
Gallery Label:
Durand used this study as the model for the trees in the foreground of a large studio creating titled, "Landscape, Composition, Forenoon," 1847 now in the New Orleans Museum of Art. The majority of the New-York Historical Society's extensive holdings of Durand's oil studies entered the collection as gifts from the artist's family. However, several of them, including this work and "Study from Nature: Group of Trees," were purchased by the Art Committee out of Durand's 1887 estate sale. Acquired only a year after the artist's death, this purchase confirmed the Society's recognition of these studies as works of aesthetic and historical importance and may have inspired his family's generosity over the next several decades.
Bibliography:
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887.
Vail, R. W., Knickerbocker Birthday: A Sesqui Centennial History of The New-York Historical Society 1804-1954, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1954, p. 170.
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. 244. 338-40.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 179.
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. 323-5.
Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, p. 54.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter," Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 149, 153, 181, 202-3.
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0
Date End:
1846
eMuseum Object ID:
18907
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Clarkson Crolius (ca. 1774-1856)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1825
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 24 1/2 in. ( 76.8 x 62.2 cm )
Description:
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Clarkson Crolius, Jr.
Object Number:
1887.3
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Meyer, the daughter of Frederick and Lydia Meyer, married Clarkson Crolius on October 8, 1793. After her husband's death, she lived on Houston Street with her son Clarkson Crolius, Jr., who eventually inherited this portrait.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
18906
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Evening Landscape
Classification:
Date:
17th Century
Medium:
oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 x 33 x 1 in. ( 58.4 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
The Durr Collection
Object Number:
1882.89
Provenance:
Purchased from Mr. Joseph Vollmering.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
17
eMuseum Object ID:
18905
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Capture of the U.S. Frigate President by a British Squadron
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 23 1/2 in. ( 45.7 x 59.7 cm )
Description:
Marine view depicting the U.S. Frigate President surrounded by H.M.S. Endymion and three others ships of the pursuing British squadron, the Majestic, Pomone, and Tenedos.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.70
Gallery Label:
The scene depicted in this work is identical with that shown in the the second pair of aquatints engraved by Joseph Jeakes after paintings by Thomas Buttersworth and published in London, June 1, 1815.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
18885
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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