Mr. Kline, c. 1808

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 22.7 x 17.6 cm (8 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

framed: 29.2 x 24.1 x 2.9 cm (11 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1953.5.11

Artists / Makers

Jacob Eichholtz (artist) American, 1776 - 1842

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Provenance

Purchased 1948 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York and Cambridge, Maryland;[1] gift 1953 to NGA.

[1] Recorded in their files as found in Pennsylvania (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, pl. 51.

1955: American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

2003: The Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz, Portrait Painter of the Early Republic, shown at one of three simultaneous venues: Lancaster County Historical Society, Pennsylvania, 2003, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Technical Summary

A light brown-beige ground was thinly brushed on a vertically grained yellow poplar panel (0.5 cm thick) with rough cut, rather than smooth finished, edges. A portrait is roughly blocked out on the reverse of the panel. The paint was applied in thin layers extending to all edges but the bottom, where it stops roughly 1 cm short. The highlights of the shirt are done with a slightly more painterly technique. The jacket and details of the hair were painted wet-into-wet, blending slightly with underlying paint that had not completely dried. The gray background has faded slightly where it was not protected by the frame, leaving a lighter oval around the figure. There are a few scattered areas of inpainting. The painting was most recently treated in 1948, when discolored varnish was removed from the front and a wax coating was applied to the reverse of the panel. The varnish has become slightly discolored.

Bibliography

1960: Milley, John Calvin. "Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1960: 303.

1969: Beal, Rebecca J. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842. Philadelphia, 1969: 129, no. 432.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 56, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 153, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 171, repro.

1996: Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 197-199, color repro.