Joseph Gales
1821/1822
Painter, American, 1791 - 1872
Samuel F. B. Morse
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 13.97 × 8.89 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
framed: 26.04 × 22.54 × 5.08 cm (10 1/4 × 8 7/8 × 2 in.) -
Accession Number
2014.136.72
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lee B. Anderson, New York. (Victor D. Spark, New York); purchased 1951 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
Textile Museum, 1954.
1991
Making Washington City, Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1991-1992.
2004
Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004-7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 70, 310, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46626708