The Chaperone
c. 1908
Artist, American, 1844 - 1916
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Gift of John Wilmerding, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
overall: 46.3 x 36.2 cm (18 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
framed: 63.5 x 53.3 x 8.3 cm (25 x 21 x 3 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1991.34.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Susan Macdowell Eakins [Mrs. Thomas Eakins, 1851-1938], Philadelphia; her estate; (Babcock Galleries, New York); (Garelick Gallery, Detroit); Marshall M. Miller, Huntington Woods, Michigan; Peter H. Brady, Washington, D.C., by 1977.[1] (Middendorf/Lane, Washington, D.C.), in 1979.[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 24 April 1981, no. 92);[3] (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); sold 1982 to John Wilmerding, Washington, D.C.; gift 1991 to NGA.
[1] Phyllis D. Rosenzweig, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1977: 297.
[2] The painting appears in a Middendorf/Lane advertisement in the October 1979 issue of Art News.
[3] The painting is not recorded in the price list for the 1981 sale, so it was perhaps acquired privately by Hirschl and Adler after the auction.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, unnumbered catalogue, color repro.
Loan to display with permanent collection, Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, 2012.
Bibliography
1933
Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work. New York, 1933: no. 450, 203.
1992
Homer, William Innes. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art. New York, 1992: 242, fig. 231.
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: 185-189, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20191149