Still Life, "Trilby", c. 1895

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 48.26 × 71.12 cm (19 × 28 in.)

framed: 61.91 × 85.09 × 6.03 cm (24 3/8 × 33 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Anna E. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2014.136.81

Artists / Makers

Louis Maurer (painter) American, born Germany, 1832 - 1932

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Inscription

lower left on book: Trilby Du Maurer

Provenance

(Berry-Hill Galleries, New York), by 1958;[1] purchased December 1960 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting was highlighted in an advertisement for Berry-Hill Galleries in Antiquities 74, 4 (October, 1958): 289.

Associated Names

Berry-Hill Galleries
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October-29 December 1963, unpublished checklist.

1977: Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs, 1890-1910,Whiteny Museum of American Art, New York; St. Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Oakland Museum, 1977-1978, unnumbered checklist, as A Still Life on the Theme Trilby.

1978: The Object as Subject: American Still Lifes from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 December 1978-4 February 1979, no. 10.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 308, repro.