Sketch of a Polish Jew, 1817

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.84 × 64.14 cm (30 1/4 × 25 1/4 in.)

framed: 91.44 × 79.06 × 6.99 cm (36 × 31 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2014.136.67

Artists / Makers

Washington Allston (painter) American, 1779 - 1843

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Provenance

The artist, until at least 1828.[1] Thomas Dwight, Boston, at least between 1839 and 1850.[2] (Victor Spark, New York); purchased 1949 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting was lent by the artist to Second Exhibition of Paintings in the Athenaeum Gallery, Boston, 1828, no. 171.

[2] The painting was lent by Dwight in 1839 to the Exhibition of Pictures Painted by Washington Allston at Harding's Gallery, Boston (no. 29), and in 1850 to the Twenty-third Exhibition of Paintings in the Boston Athenaeum, no. 94. The label on the painting's stretcher for Tercentenary Retrospective Exhibition, 1936, lists the return address as Doll & Richards, 138 Newbury Street. However, no other information about this dealer as a possible owner is known.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Dwight, Thomas

Exhibition History

1828: Second Exhibition of Paintings in the Athenaeum Gallery: Consisting of Specimens by American Artists, and a Selection from the Works of the Old Masters, Athenaeum Gallery, Boston, 1828, no. 171.

1839: Exhibition of Pictures Painted by Washington Allston, Harding's Gallery, Boston, 1839, no. 29.

1850: Twenty-third Exhibition of Paintings, Athenaeum Gallery, Boston, 1850, no. 94.

1881: Memorial Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1881.

1936: Tercentenary Retrospective Exhibition, Art Association of Newport, 1936.

1964: American Jewish Art and History in the South, 1697-1900, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, 16-30 March 1964.

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue.

1979: "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston, 1779-1843, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1979-1980, no. 46, repro.

2005: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 10 (shown only in Houston, Southampton, Charlotte).

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 285, repro.