Catalyntje Post, c. 1747

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 133.6 x 90.4 cm (52 5/8 x 35 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.34

Artists / Makers

American 18th Century (painter)

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Inscription

by later hand, formerly on right arm in pencil (no longer visible; removed in 1951 treatment; photograph in object file [1980.62.34] in NGA curatorial records): Aged 14 [ ] days

Provenance

Recorded as from New York State. Descended in the Post family until it was sold by Miss Katharine Olcott.[1] (Fred J. Johnson, Kingston, New York), by whom sold in 1950 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

[1] Miss Olcott owned the work by 1949, according to the caption to the photograph of this painting in Alice Ford's Pictorial Folk Art: New England to California, (New York and London, 1949), 55.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson, Fred J.
Olcott, Katharine
Post family

Exhibition History

1886: Exhibition commemorating the relief of Leydon, Holland Society, Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, New York, 1886, no. 10.

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 14.

1955: American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955 (shown only two weeks and replaced).

1961: 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 6, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

1967: Fifty Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1967, no cat.

1968: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 5, repro. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

1970: American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, organized by the Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., and Mainichi News., Nihobashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1970, no cat.

Bibliography

1887: Yearbook of the Holland Society of New York, 1886-1887. New York, 1887: 33, 34.

1949: Ford, Alice. Pictorial Folk Art: New England to California. New York and London, 1949: 10, 55.

1959: Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting: Materials for a History, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959: 252, pl. 72, no. 3.

1966: Curran, Ona. "A Study of New York Portraits of Schenectady Residents, 1715-1750." M.A. thesis, State University of New York, College at Oneonta, Cooperstown Graduate Program, 1966: 99, 100, 102, 103, 105, 114, 153, 154.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 422, repro.

1992: Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 574-576, repro. 575.