- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1954.148
- People
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William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
- Title
- The Gypsies' Parlor
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1877
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228720
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.5 x 106.7 cm (30 1/8 x 42 in.)
framed: 102.6 x 132.4 x 10.2 cm (40 3/8 x 52 1/8 x 4 in.)
- Provenance
- Noyes and Blakeslee, Boston, 1878; auction at Louis J. Bird & Co., Warren Chambers, Boston, February 23 and 24, 1898, no. 34; purchased by Edward W. Forbes; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1954.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
- Accession Year
- 1954
- Object Number
- 1954.148
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings by the Late William Morris Hunt in the East Gallery, exh. cat. (April-Oct 1980), cat. 40
Valuable Paintings, Comprising Fine Examples of French, German and American Schools of Art, auct. cat., Galleries of Noyes and Blakeslee (Boston, MA, 1878), cat. 45
Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1880), cat. 217
Celebrated Paintings and Charcoal Drawings of the Late William Morris Hunt, auct. cat., Warren Chambers (Boston, MA, 1898), cat. 34, ill.
Loan Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, exh. cat. (Milton, MA, 1905), cat. 32
Centennial Exhibition of Paintings by William Morris Hunt, exh. cat., Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1924), cat. 21
Memorial Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1924), cat. 11
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. 276, cat. 223, ill.
- Exhibition History
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Valuable Paintings, Comprising Fine Examples of French, German and American Schools of Art, Galleries of Noyes and Blakeslee
Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/20/1879 - 01/31/1880
Paintings by the Late William Morris Hunt in the East Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 04/01/1880 - 10/31/1880
Exhibition and Public Sale of the Celebrated Paintings and Charcoal Drawings of the Late William Morris Hunt, Warren Chambers, 02/23/1898 - 02/24/1898
Loan Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Town Hall Milton, MA, 11/01/1905 - 11/30/1905
Memorial Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/08/1924 - 03/31/1924
Centennial Exhibition of Paintings by William Morris Hunt, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery, 04/20/1924 - 06/30/1924
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