Study for "The Bashful Cousin"

c. 1841-1842

Francis William Edmonds

Painter, American, 1806 - 1863

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent in the artist's family, probably to his daughter, Nora Edmonds Coudert [1836-1898, Mrs. Louis Leonce Coudert]; to her son, the artist's grandson, Louis Leonce Coudert, Jr. [1865-1928]; to his daughter, the artist's great-granddaughter, Cecile Coudert Bigelow [1902-1988, Mrs. Horace Ransom Bigelow]; to her son, the artist's great-great-grandson, Paul Upham Bigelow [1932-2007]; consigned to (Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York);[1] purchased 20 April 1988 by H. Nichols B. Clark, Cambridge, Massachusetts;[2] gift 2018 to NGA.
[1] Martha Fleischman of Kennedy Galleries kindly consulted the dealer's records, and shared information about the artist's family and the transaction with them in a phone call and e-mail, 29-30 October 2018; see NGA curatorial files.
[2] This purchase information was kindly provided by the donor in his e-mail of 26 October 2018, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Proud Possessions: A Community Collects, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, 1992, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1988

  • Clark, Henry Nichols Blake. Francis W. Edmonds: American Master in the Dutch Tradition. Exh. cat. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; New-York Historical Society. Washington, D.C., 1988: 68, 69 fig. 38.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 192, fig. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q58693785

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