William Wilson Corcoran, 1867

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 246.7 × 175.26 cm (97 1/8 × 69 in.)

framed: 297.82 × 227.65 cm (117 1/4 × 89 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Accession Number

2015.19.107

Artists / Makers

Charles Loring Elliott (painter) American, 1812 - 1868

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Inscription

bottom left on chair frame: CL Elliot 1867.

Provenance

Commissioned 1867 by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington; gift 10 May 1869 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting was the first painting accessioned into the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson

Exhibition History

1986: Long-term loan, Riggs National Bank (later PNC Bank), Washington, 1986-2015.

Bibliography

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 81.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 296, repro.