The Pets
1856
Artist, American, 1824 - 1906
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on academy board transferred to hardboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 63.5 × 73.03 cm (25 × 28 3/4 in.)
framed: 82.07 × 94.62 × 9.53 cm (32 5/16 × 37 1/4 × 3 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2014.136.110
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington; gift 10 May 1869 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as Girl with Pets; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1857
First Annual Exhibition of the Washington Art Association, Washington Art Association, 1857, no. 71.
1859
Thirty-fourth Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, National Academy of Design, New York, 1859, no. 621.
1935
American Life in a Century of American Art, The Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1935, no. 24, as Girl and Pets.
American Genre: The Social Scene in Paintings & Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 26 March-29 April 1935, no. 61, as Girl and Pets.
1936
An Exhibition of American Genre Paintings, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 13 February-26 March 1936, no. 57, as Girl and Pets.
1993
The Century Club Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 July-13 September 1993, unpublished checklist, as Girl and Pets.
2006
American ABC, Iris B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 2006-2007 (shown only in Washington).
2013
American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
1857
Lanman, Charles. Catalogue of W.W. Corcoran's Gallery. Washington, 1857: 16, no. 81.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 20, 304, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: E. Johnson. 1856
Wikidata ID
Q46628478