H843: Pietro Bachi (1787-1853)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H843

People

Albert Gallatin Hoit (Sandwich, NH 1809 - 1856 West Roxbury, MA)
Pietro Bachi (Palermo, Sicily, Italy 1787-1853 Boston, MA)

Title

Pietro Bachi (1787-1853)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1851-1853

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/323704

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.5 x 63.8 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• (not assigned): stencil on reverse: "From / J.J. Adams / 99 Washington St. / Boston"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles (1817-1889) and Mary Anna (Bachi) Carruth (1828-1896), Boston; to their son, Charles Carruth, and his wife, Agnes (Tucker) Carruth, c. 1896, Concord, MA, and Bermuda; descent in family to Mrs. Joan Tucker Fowle, Bermuda; to her nephew, John Tucker Abbott (1915-2001), 1992; sold at auction, Skinner, Inc., 2007.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Purchased for the Harvard Portrait Collection, 2008

Accession Year

2008

Object Number

H843

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 263-64, cat. 212, ill.

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