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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
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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

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