Still Life, "Trilby"
c. 1895
Painter, American, born Germany, 1832 - 1932
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 48.26 × 71.12 cm (19 × 28 in.)
framed: 61.91 × 85.09 × 6.03 cm (24 3/8 × 33 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2014.136.81
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Berry-Hill Galleries, New York), by 1958;[1] purchased December 1960 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting was highlighted in an advertisement for Berry-Hill Galleries in Antiquities 74, 4 (October, 1958): 289.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October-29 December 1963, unpublished checklist.
1977
Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs, 1890-1910,Whiteny Museum of American Art, New York; St. Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Oakland Museum, 1977-1978, unnumbered checklist, as A Still Life on the Theme Trilby.
1978
The Object as Subject: American Still Lifes from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 December 1978-4 February 1979, no. 10.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 308, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left on book: Trilby Du Maurer
Wikidata ID
Q46631974