Portrait of a Man
c. 1795
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 48.9 x 38.4 cm (19 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)
framed: 56.2 x 46 x 3.8 cm (22 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 1 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1947.17.35
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] De Forest); sold October 1924 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.
[1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1925
A Loan Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans Painted in This Country by Painters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Century Association, New York, 1925, no. 8, as Peter R. Livingston by Abraham Delanoy.
1928
Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue, as Peter R. Livingston by Abraham Delanoy.
1944
John Trumbull and his Contemporaries, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, 1944, no. 48, as Peter R. Livingston, Attributed to Abraham Delanoy.
Bibliography
1928
Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered, as Peter R. Livingston by Abraham Delanoy.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 158, repro., as Portrait of a Man by American (?).
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as Portrait of a Man by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 410, repro., as Portrait of a Man by Unknown Nationality 18th Century.
Wikidata ID
Q20180248