Harvard Art Museums > 1999.251: Girl Playing a Cello Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Girl Playing a Cello (Lilla Cabot Perry) , 1999.251,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Sep 07, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/186505. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.251 People Lilla Cabot Perry, American (Boston, MA 1848 - 1933 Hancock, NH) Title Girl Playing a Cello Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1891 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/186505 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: u.r.: in brown oil: Lilla Cabot Perry/-1891- label: reverse of frame: Haley & Steele/Picture Frame Makers/ 109 St. James Avenue/ Boston, Mass. label: reverse of stretcher, bottom: Fogg Art Museum/ TLoan/ 16094 label: reverse of stretcher, top: Fogg Art Museum/4(2?)89/ Cobb label: reverse of stretcher, top: Museum of Fine Arts/13th Exhibition of the Society of American Artists/ (June?) 1891 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Edith Perry Ballantine; Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Cobb (descendants of Lilla Cabot Perry's sister, Helen Jackson Cabot Almy); by descent to John Cobb; his gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. John Cobb in memory of Elizabeth Almy Cobb Hall, Radcliffe, 1916, 1999 Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.251 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 265-66, cat. 278, ill. p. 266 Exhibition History Society of American Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/01/1891 - 12/31/1891 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu