Mother and Child in White

c. 1790

American 18th Century

Associated Names
American 18th Century

Artist

The image shows a portrait of a woman seated with a young child on her lap. The woman is holding the child securely with one arm wrapped around the child and the other holding a small flower. The woman has a fair complexion, an oval face, straight dark eyebrows, light-colored eyes, and is wearing a bonnet with lace and a large blue ribbon. She is dressed in a light-colored gown with a high neckline, a black choker, and a wide black belt. The child, also fair-complexioned, is wearing a dress with a blue sash and a lacy bonnet. They sit against a dark background.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from New Haven, Connecticut. (Thomas D. Williams, Litchfield, Connecticut), by whom sold in 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954, no. 28.

1968

  • American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by Amer. Fed. of Arts, N.Y., 1968-1970, no. 18. First venue: Grand Palais, Paris.

Bibliography

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: 550-552, color repro. 551.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 414, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20179828

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