Philip Fister, 1808

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Medium

charcoal and pastel on pink prepared paper

Dimensions

sheet: 55.09 × 40.8 cm (21 11/16 × 16 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Sarah Craven Eichner)

Accession Number

2015.19.2487

Artists / Makers

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (artist) French, 1770 - 1852

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Inscription

upper center verso in black ink on adhered label: Philip Fister / Brother of Grandmother / Coryell / V. C. McD

Provenance

Philip Fister, Lambertville, New Jersey; Ann Fister Coryell (sitter's sister), Trenton, New Jersey; George Coryell, Lambertville, New Jersey; Virginia Coryell McDougall, Princeton, New Jersey; Sarah Craven Eichner (granddaughter), Bloomfield, New Jersey; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Eichner, Sarah Craven

Exhibition History

1978: Faces of Alexandria, 1749-1849, Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, Alexandria, 1978

Bibliography

1942: Norfleet, Fillmore. Saint-Mémin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1942, p. 161.

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 2, no. 12.