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Object Number

1960.156

People

Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)

Title

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (The Medallion Portrait)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1805

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228021

Medium

Oil and egg mixture on blue laid paper on canvas

Technique

Grisaille

Dimensions

47.6 x 47.6 cm (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
framed: 68 x 68.6 x 10.2 cm (26 3/4 x 27 x 4 in.)

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. T. Jefferson Newbold and family, in memory of Thomas Jefferson Newbold, Class of 1910

Accession Year

1960

Object Number

1960.156

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Karl Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Travels through North America, during the years 1825 and 1826, Carey, Lea and Carey (Philadelphia, PA, 1828), see under 11/26/1825

Clarence Winthrop Bowen, ed., History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington, D. Appleton & Co. (New York, NY, 1892), p. 485

George C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1894), pp. 207-208

Charles Henry Hart, "Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson", McClure's Magazine (May 1898), p. 48

Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. I, p. 440, no. 442; vol. III, ill. p. 266

Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 222, cat. 1173

Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Exhibition, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1943), no. 8

Fiske Kimball, "Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson and Their Replicas", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1944), p. 521

"Notes on the Medallion Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart", Unpublished (1957)

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-September 1960", The Art Quarterly (Winter 1960), vol. XXIII, no. 4, ill. p. 398

Dorothy Adlow, "'Jefferson' Given to Harvard", The Christian Science Monitor (July 1, 1960), ill. p. 1

Jules David Prown, "Medallion Life Portrait of Jefferson, Painted by Gilbert Stuart 1805", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, September 24, 1960), ill. p. 15

Alfred L. Bush, The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson, exh. cat., Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (Charlottesville, VA, 1962), pp. 6, 75-77, no. 20, ill. p. 74

Stephen Xydis, "Classical Greek Tradition in Colonial America", Greek Heritage (After July 1964)

Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 24, ill.

Fiske Kimball, "The Stuart Portraits of Jefferson", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (June 1973), p. 343, 348

Karl Lehmann, Thomas Jefferson: American Humanist, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL and London, England, 1973), frontispiece

Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), pp. 100, 142, no. 86, ill. p. 100

Agnes Mongan, Harvard Honors Lafayette, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 35, ill.

Clifford L. Egan, Neither Peace Nor War : Franco-American relations, 1803-1812, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA, 1983), ill. opp. p. 78

Richard McLanathan, Gilbert Stuart, Harry N. Abrams, Inc./National Museum of American Art (New York, NY and Washington DC, 1986), ill. p. 122

Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), p. 70, fig. 40

David L. Ganz, "The New Jefferson", COINage, Miller Magazines, Inc. (June 1994), vol. 30, no. 6, p. 96

Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles, Gilbert Stuart, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, 2004), p. 284, fig. 79

Susan Rather, "Contrary Stuart", American Art (Spring 2010), vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 66-93, p. 85, fig. 15

Ann Lucas Birle and Lisa A. Francavilla, ed., Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England: The Travel Diary of Ellen Wayles Coolidge, 1838-1839, Massachusetts Historical Society and Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. (Boston and Charlottesville, 2011), repr. as fig. 14

Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England: The Travel Diary of Ellen Wayles Coolidge, 1838-1839, ed. Ann Lucas Birle and Lisa A. Francavilla, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 2011), pp. x, xvii, 18, fig. 14

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), p. 33, 450-51, cat. 416, ill.

Murray Whyte, "A History of Slavery, Vivdly Alive in the Present at Harvard", The Boston Globe (March 17, 2019), pp. N1, N6, p. N6

Lloyd DeWitt and Corey Piper, Thomas Jefferson Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA, 2019), p. 120, plate 1

Unidentified Exhibition, Boston Athenaeum, 1828, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 01/01/1828 - 12/31/1828

Loan Exhibition of Stuart's Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1880 - 05/31/1880

Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 04/13/1943 - 05/15/1943

American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1975 - 09/22/1975

Harvard Honors Lafayette, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/03/1975 - 03/12/1976

Gilbert Stuart, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/18/2004 - 01/16/2005; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/27/2005 - 07/31/2005

Thomas Jefferson 264th Birthday Commemoration, Monticello, 04/13/2007 - 07/24/2013

32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/05/2019

Thomas Jefferson Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 10/19/2019 - 01/19/2020

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