Collection Highlights
Santa Claus and his Works
Date:
1870
Object Number:
LIB.YC1870.Web
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Object Number:
1858.34
Date:
ca. 1836
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 in. ( 76.2 x 61 cm )
Framed: 33 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (85.1 × 69.9 × 7 cm)
Bibliography:
"National Academy of Design," The Evening Post, [New York], May 25, 1835, p. 2.
"Our Pigeon Holes," Aristidean: A Magazine of Reviews, Politics, and Light Literature, 1845, p. 79.
Richardson, E.P., Painting in America, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1956, p. 251.
Gerdts, William H. and Thistlethwaite, Mark, Grand Illusions: History Painting in America, Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1988, pp. 77, 97-101.
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. 35.
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
