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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.104
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Portrait of a Monk
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
17th century
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230490

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
43.18 x 33.02 cm (17 x 13 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard Worsam Meade, Philadelphia and Cadiz, Spain, by 1818, thence to; Margaret Coats Butler [his widow], Philadelphia and Washtington, DC, to; Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, 1829, thence to; Robert Gilmor III (1808-1875), Baltimore, by 1855; [his [posthumous] sale, 1875, lot 30], to; Henry William Ellicott (1824-1895), Baltimore. Dr. George Reuling, Baltimore, by 1890, thence to; Elisa Külp Reuling [his wife] (1853-1925), Baltimore, thence to; Marie Reuling Pleasants [their daughter] (c. 1874-1964), Baltimore; [Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, Novemeber 4-5, 1925, lot 138]. Grenville L. Winthrop (1864–1943), by 1939; gifted to the Fogg Art Museum, 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.104
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

Verification Level

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