The Domino Girl, c. 1790

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 58.1 x 46.8 cm (22 7/8 x 18 7/16 in.)

framed: 70.5 x 59.1 x 5.1 cm (27 3/4 x 23 1/4 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1980.62.41

Artists / Makers

American 18th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Provenance

Recorded as from New Jersey.[1] (Harry Stone Gallery, New York). Mr. and Mrs. Carl Drepperd, by 1942, by whom sold in 1954 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980.

[1] According to the Garbisch records. The caption to an illustration of this painting in Antiques 42 (October, 1942), 181 and frontispiece, states that it was discovered in Pennsylvania.

Associated Names

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

Exhibition History

1942: American Pioneer Paintings, Harry Stone Gallery, New York, 1942.

1957: American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part II, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1957, no. 22.

1961: 101 Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting from the Collection of E.W. and B.C. Garbisch, traveling exh. by the Amer. Federation of Arts, New York, 1961-1964, no. 18, color repro. First venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

Bibliography

1942: Antiques 42 (October 1942): 181, and frontispiece.

1949: Drepperd, Carl W. Pioneer America: Its First Three Centuries. New York, 1949: 146.

1980: Brant, Sandra, and Elissa Cullman. Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America. New York, 1980: 126, color repro., 142.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 399, 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: 437, 441, color repro. 439.