Miss Jean Christie
c. 1810/1830
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.9 x 64.2 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 94.3 x 81.6 x 6.4 cm (37 1/8 x 32 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1954.9.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Elizabeth, 5th Duchess of Gordon [1794-1864]; by descent to the sitter's half-brother, Adam Gordon; thence through his widow, who married a Mr. Reid, to her grandson, Major Duggan [d. by 1918], Newton Garrie, Fochabers, Morayshire, Scotland;[1] sold 1929 by his widow to (P. Jackson Higgs), New York;[2] from whom it was purchased December 1929 by Mrs. William H. Moore, New York; by descent to her son Edward Small Moore [1881-1948], thence to his wife, Jean McGuinley Moore [later Mrs. Charles D. Draper, 1884/5-1954],New York; bequest 1954 to NGA.
[1] The provenance from Adam Gordon to Major Duggan is given in the expertise supplied to P. Jackson Higgs by William Roberts, 5 September 1929, in NGA curatorial files. [2] The picture was advertised as recently acquired by P. Jackson Higgs in Art (December 1929), 5.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1929
Art News (December 1929): 5, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 107, as Jean Christie, by Raeburn.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 94, repro., as Jean Christie by Raeburn.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 278, repro., as Jean Christie, by Raeburn.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 323, repro., by Raeburn.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 207-208, repro. 207.
Wikidata ID
Q20182845