Joseph Gales, 1821/1822

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 13.97 × 8.89 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)

framed: 26.04 × 22.54 × 5.08 cm (10 1/4 × 8 7/8 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

Accession Number

2014.136.72

Artists / Makers

Samuel F. B. Morse (painter) American, 1791 - 1872

Image Use

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Provenance

Lee B. Anderson, New York. (Victor D. Spark, New York); purchased 1951 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Anderson, Lee B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Spark, Victor D.

Exhibition History

1954: Textile Museum, 1954.

1991: Making Washington City, Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1991-1992.

2004: Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004-7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 70, 310, repro.