Charlotte Marsteller

c. 1803

Frederick Kemmelmeyer

Painter, American, active 1788/1816

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 75.57 × 61.6 cm (29 3/4 × 24 1/4 in.)
    framed: 84.46 × 71.76 × 6.99 cm (33 1/4 × 28 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.136.75

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent to the great niece of the sitter, Mrs. W. B. Laws, Calverton, Virginia; purchased 1956 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1959

  • Loan Exhibition. Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Benefit Exhibition in Honor of the Gallery's Centenary, Wildenstein, New York, 28 January-7 March 1959, unnumbered cat., as Unidentified Artist.

1960

  • American Painters of the South, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 23 April-5 June 1960, no. 58, as Unidentitied.

1963

  • Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October-29 December 1963, unpublished checklist, as Unidentified Artist, 19th century.

  • Tercentenary Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 23 March-28 April 1963, no. 63, as Unknown Artist.

1972

  • Conservation in the Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 September-22 October 1972, unpublished checklist.

1981

  • Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg; Dayton Art Institute; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1981-1982, no. x.173, repro.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 305, repro.

2021

  • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Early American Baltimore. Hagerstown, MD, 2021: 90, fig. 18.

Wikidata ID

Q46626231


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