Lady Wearing Pearls, c. 1830

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 88.9 x 71.1 cm (35 x 28 in.)

framed: 99.7 x 81.9 x 4.4 cm (39 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1953.5.73

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

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Provenance

Recorded as from New York State.[1] (Harry Stone, New York, by 1942),[2] by whom sold in 1946 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1953.

[1] The caption published in a special issue of Art Lover 1 (November/December 1945), no. 6, indicates that the painting was found in upper New York State. This issue served as a catalogue for the exhibition, "Harry Stone Collection of American Primitive Paintings," New Art Circle, J.B. Neumann Gallery, New York, 1945.

[2] In which year the work was included in an exhibition (title unknown) at Stone's gallery in New York.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Stone Gallery, Harry
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1942: Title unknown, Harry Stone Gallery, New York, 1942.

1945: Harry Stone Collection of American Primitive Paintings, New Art Circle, J. B. Neumann Gallery, New York, no. 6; special isssue of Art Lover 1 (November/December 1945) as cat.

1972: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Strauz-Hupe, U.S. Embassy residence, Brussels, Belgium, 1972-1977.

Bibliography

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 278, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 407, repro.

1992: Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 515-517, repro. 516.