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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.707
People
Edward D.E. Greene, American (Boston, MA 1823 - 1879 New York, NY)
Title
A Light-Haired Woman
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of a Young Woman
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1855-1860
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231938

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
55.8 x 45.6 cm (21 15/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: E. D. E. Greene, New York
  • (not assigned): Stencil on back of canvas: "Williams, Stevens and Williams/[illeg]/353 Broadway, New York"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by William Hayes Fogg, New York; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.707
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 274
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 355
  • 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. 228-30, cat. 179, ill.

Verification Level

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