Falstaff Playing King.
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1834
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 35 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. ( 90.2 x 72.4 cm )
Framed: 41 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (105.4 × 87.6 × 6.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.16
Gallery Label:
Flagg's painting is based on the play King Henry the Fourth by Master William Shakespeare (1564-1616), part 1, act 2, scene 4.
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography:
"Miscellaneous Notices of The Fine Arts, Literature, Science, The Drama, etc.," The American Monthly Magazine III, May 1, 1834, p. 207.
"The National Academy," The New-York Mirror: A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. 11, May 10, 1834, p. 355.
"National Academy of Design," The Evening Post, [New York], May 23, 1834, p. 2.
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. 28
Foshay, Ella M., Mr. Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: A Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 152-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
17861
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Boys Playing Marbles
Classification:
Date:
1836
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 21 1/2 x 1/2 in. (68.6 x 54.6 x 1.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Dudley Butler, grandson of Luman Reed
Object Number:
1940.484
Gallery Label:
"Boys Playing Marbles" is one of a series of door panels that the New York art collector Luman Reed (1785-1836) commissioned to enhance the overall appearance of the art gallery in his Manhattan townhouse. As was fashionable among other elite American collectors, the floor plan of Reed's gallery was a double parlor. Two small doors opened into each of the two rooms, and two larger doors divided the double parlor, all of which had recessed panels. With the passion of a true collector, Reed was not one to waste valuable space for displaying works of art and decided to fill the door recesses with original paintings.
Calling on Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, George Whiting Flagg, and William Sidney Mount to contribute to the scheme, Reed commissioned panels of simple genre subjects, which were to be executed in a free and uncomposed manner. Fourteen of the original panel paintings survive, four of which are by Cole and the rest attributed to Durand. The New-York Historical Society holds seven of the surviving panels attributed to Durand, including this one, which would have been mounted on one of the smaller doors leading into each room of the picture gallery. The other seven panels are dispersed among private collections and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.
Bibliography:
Noble, Louis Legrand, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, Hensonville, New York: Black Dome Press, 1964, pp. 155-65.
Parry, Elwood, Thomas Cole's "The Course of Empire": A Study in Serial Imagery, PhD Dissertation, Yale, 1970, pp. 70-3.
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. 68, 188-92. 620.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 8-10.
Frankenstein, Alfred, William Sidney Mount, New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975, pp. 69-70.
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. 304-6, 402-4.
Tufts, Eleanor, "Realism Revisited: Goya's Impact on George Bellows and other American Responses to the Spanish Presence in Art," Arts, No. 57, February 1983, PP. 105-13.
Foshay, Ella M., Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 38-9, 67-9, 205-6.
Burgard, Timothy Anglin, "New Discoveries in American Art," American Art Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1991, pp. 70-4.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1836
eMuseum Object ID:
17860
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James W. De Peyster (1745-1812)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1798
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily M. De Peyster
Object Number:
1918.4
Gallery Label:
James W. De Peyster, the son of William De Peyster, Sr., and Margareta (Roosevelt) De Peyster, married Anna, daughter of Gerardus and Eva (Duke) De Peyster. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his great-granddaughter.
Bibliography:
Sellers, Charles Coleman, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 42, Part I, Philadelphia: 1952, pp. 65, 270.
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. The De Peyster Geneaology. Boston: Privately Printed, 1956, pp. 76-7, fig. 16
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting, materials for a history. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959, pp. 47-58, II-IV.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p 206.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1798
eMuseum Object ID:
17858
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Beggar Girl
Classification:
Date:
1861
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 10 in. ( 30.5 x 25.4 cm )
Description:
Frontal view of a young girl sitting in a doorway with a basket beside her.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection on permanent loan from the New York Public Library
Object Number:
S-197
Marks:
Signature and date: in lower right corner: "J. H. Cafferty Pin/1861"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1861
eMuseum Object ID:
17856
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Visit to the Mint by President Washington and Party in 1792.
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 16 1/16 x 1/8 in. ( 30.5 x 40.8 x 0.3 cm )
Object Number:
X.704b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17854
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Benjamin T. Onderdonk (1793-1887)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830-1833
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 in. ( 86.4 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Henry Selden Weller
Object Number:
1953.72
Gallery Label:
Eliza Moscrop was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Moscrop. She married the REv. Benjamin T. Onderdonk in 1813. Her portrait and a companion portrait of her husband were donated to the Society by their great-grandson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
17853
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dominick Lynch (1754-1824)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815-1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 23 1/4 in. ( 71.1 x 59.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Lewis Gouverneur Morris
Object Number:
1952.21
Gallery Label:
Lynch was a wine merchant and one of the partners of the firm of Lynch and Stoughton which had its place of business near the Merchants Exchange. He was reputed to give "royal dinners" and to mingle with "the best society" (Scoville, "Old Merchants of New York," I, 1863, 171). He was living on Staten Island at the time of his death in 1844.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
17850
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Goldsbrow Banyar, Sr. (1724-1815)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1875
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 28 in. ( 91.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Prosper Guerry
Object Number:
1957.48
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, "Correcting the Record", Albany Institute of History and Art Bulletin, Vol. X, October 1957, Number 1, pp. 2-4.
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 1, 19.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 39-41.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
17848
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Grand Central Railroad Tracks from Lexington Avenue, N.Y.C.
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1900-1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. ( 44.5 x 33.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1915.74
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
17835
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. George Opdyke (1805-1880)
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 x 26 x 1 in. ( 83.8 x 66 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1977.59
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17801
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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