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American 18th Century, Matilda Caroline Cruger, c. 1795, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.13

Matilda Caroline Cruger

American 18th Century · c. 1795 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.13

Twelve men, women, children, and babies are arranged on or around a couch in this horizontal portrait painting. The features and clothing are simply painted, so some of the faces are a bit generic. They all have pale skin with rosy cheeks, and all but one of them have blue eyes. The slate-blue couch is centered against a wall mottled with copper brown, golden yellow, and sage green. Three adults sit on the couch. To our left, a man wearing a black suit and stockings leans against the arm of the couch so his body faces our right in profile, his legs crossed. He turns to look at us with a slight smile on his lips, his eyebrows raised. His dark hair is smoothed back along the top of his head and is bushy over each ear. A white neckerchief wraps across his high collar and ruffles cascade down the front. He holds a book in his lap. Two women sit next to him, to our right. Both have dark hair and wear broad neckerchiefs over tightly fitting bodices, and white aprons over long, full skirts. The woman to our left turns her face slightly to our left but looks at us from the corners of her eyes. She wears a white bonnet, and her bodice is plum purple. The other woman’s head is uncovered and her forehead lined with bangs. Both of these women hold babies wearing white caps, and the babies smile. Just behind the couch, to our right of the second woman, a young man with a faint, dark beard, black hair, and brown eyes stands with his body facing our left in profile. He turns to look at us as he tucks one hand between the buttons of his nickel-gray, high-collared jacket. Two boys wearing blue suits stand to our left in front of the couch, near the seated man. The smaller boy, to our left, holds an archery bow, wears a dark cap, and looks at us, smiling. The older boy standing next to him has blond hair and points down at the younger child with one hand, the other on his hip. Two young women and a girl stand to our right, also in front of the couch. They all wear white dresses with long sleeves and skirts, their narrow waists tied with rose-pink sashes. Two older girls have black hair and hold hands. The youngest girl, near the right edge of the painting, has blond hair and also looks at us. The carpet beneath the group has vertical stripes leading back to the wall. Narrow bands of navy blue are dotted with pink to suggest a floral pattern, between wider, light blue stripes.
American 18th Century, The Cheney Family, c. 1795, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1958.9.9

The Cheney Family

American 18th Century · c. 1795 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1958.9.9

American 18th Century, Miss Daggett of New Haven, Connecticut (possibly Amelia Martha), c. 1795, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1956.13.9

Miss Daggett of New Haven, Connecticut (possibly Amelia Martha)

American 18th Century · c. 1795 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1956.13.9

A three-storied, white manor house with a rust-red roof and wings extending off both sides sits across an emerald-green lawn lined with tall, sage and dark green trees in this horizontal painting. Straw-brown paths lead to the house from either side of the lawn, where they meet an oval-shaped path directly in front of the house. The grassy area inside the oval is cordoned off with posts and weighted chains. Closer to us, three men, two women, and a gray dog stand on the lawn. Two of the men wear uniforms with navy-blue, button-lined jackets with golden yellow epaulets and collars, dark, tricorn hats, and butter-yellow britches over black, knee-high boots. The third man wears a brown suit with a white collar. Both the women wear white dresses. One has a sky-blue sash around her waist and the other has a black shawl wrapped across her torso, and wears a white bonnet. Two light-skinned people, perhaps a man and a child, walk along the path to our left, wearing gray suits. Four people closer to the house have brown skin. One of them, a woman, stands at the front center of the oval path and other three men approach a door in the wing to our left. One of that trio carries a shovel over his shoulder, one a rake, and the other a staff. A carriage guided by a seated horseman and pulled by four horses enters the scene from our right. To our left and right, covered walkways connect the main house to the side wings. The wing to our right is mostly hidden by trees and cut off by the right edge of the painting. The wing to our left has a teal-blue roof, red brick chimneys, and the same white walls as the manor. The main house has a triangular pediment over the front door and chimneys to each side of the red roof. A spire-like lantern is at the center of the roofline, over the pediment. Faint, wispy white clouds billow against the azure-blue sky above. Centered at the bottom of the scene across a white margin are the words, “A VIEW OF MOUNT.VERNON THE SEAT OF GENERAL WASHINGTON.”
American 18th Century, A View of Mount Vernon, 1792 or after, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1953.5.89

A View of Mount Vernon

American 18th Century · 1792 or after · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1953.5.89

American 18th Century, Dr. Philemon Tracy, c. 1790, oil on paper on board on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.44

Dr. Philemon Tracy

American 18th Century · c. 1790 · oil on paper on board on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.44

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Maria

American 18th Century · c. 1790 · watercolor, pen, and ink on silk ·  Accession ID  1953.5.46

American 18th Century, At the Writing Table, c. 1790, aqueous medium on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1953.5.75

At the Writing Table

American 18th Century · c. 1790 · aqueous medium on canvas ·  Accession ID  1953.5.75

American 18th Century, Mother and Child in White, c. 1790, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.39

Mother and Child in White

American 18th Century · c. 1790 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.39

American 18th Century, Boy with a Basket of Fruit, c. 1790, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1971.83.13

Boy with a Basket of Fruit

American 18th Century · c. 1790 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1971.83.13

American 18th Century, The Domino Girl, c. 1790, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.41

The Domino Girl

American 18th Century · c. 1790 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.41