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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.148
People
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

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

Recorded Ownership History
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

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

  • 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

  • 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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