Portrait of a Man, c. 1840

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 86.5 x 68.7 cm (34 1/16 x 27 1/16 in.)

framed: 107 x 91.8 x 7.9 cm (42 1/8 x 36 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.37

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (painter)

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Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 11 March 1922 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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.

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1924: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, February 1924, no. 16, as Christian Gobrecht by Asher Brown Durand.

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 Christian Gobrecht by Asher Brown Durand.

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 Christian Gobrecht by Asher Brown Durand.

1930: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. Early American Portraiture. New York, 1930: 41.

1966: Lawall, David B. "Asher Brown Durand, His Art and Theory in Relation to His Times." 4 vols. Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1966: 3:appendix 2, no. 7, 209.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 50, repro., as by Asher Brown Durand.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 147, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 161, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 296-297, repro.