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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.93
People
Philippe Abraham Peticolas, American (Meziers, France 1760 - 1841 Petersburg, VA)
Title
George Washington (1732-1799)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1796
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228998

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
7.6 x 6.4 cm (3 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.c.: P.A. Peticolas Pxit/ Philadelphia

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles L. Peticolas, grandson of the artist; his sale to J.A. Barker, 1865; his/her sale to Samuel P. Avery; his sale to John Taylor Johnston, New York, 1866; his sale to Frederick C. Sayles, Pawtucket, RI, 1881; to his son Robert W. Sales, Chestnut Hill, MA; to his wife Adelaide Kimball Burton Sayles (Mrs. Robert W. Sayles); her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Robert W. Sayles
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.93
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, Original Portraits of Washington, Including Statues, Monuments and Medals, J. R. Osgood and Co. (Boston, MA, 1882), ill.
  • John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and their Replicas, Lancaster Press, Inc. (Lancaster, PA, 1931), pp. 411-414, no. 1, ill. opp. p. 414
  • Barbara N. Parker, "A Miniature of George Washington by Philippe A. Peticolas, 1760-1841", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1950), vol. XI, no. 2, pp. 61-62
  • 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. 397-98, cat. 359, ill.

Verification Level

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