Joseph Ogden Pierson | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2013.32
People: Attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, Netherlandish (Maastricht, Netherlands 1801 - 1888 Paris, France)
Title: Joseph Ogden Pierson
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1838-1840
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/192412

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76.4 x 64.7 cm (30 1/16 x 25 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Commissioned by the sitter; to his son, James L. Pierson, New Orleans; to his son, Joseph Ogden Pierson, New Orleans; to his daughter, Florence Pierson Hammond (Mrs. Mason Hammond), Cambridge, MA; to her daughter Florence Hammond Phillips, her gift to the Harvard Art Museums, 2013.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Florence H. Phillips in memory of Mason and Florence Pierson Hammond
Accession Year: 2013
Object Number: 2013.32
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 35, 69-70, cat. 23, ill.

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