First study for "Christ Healing the Sick"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 95.1942
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: First study for "Christ Healing the Sick"
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1813
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/232198

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on composition board
Dimensions: irregular: 73 x 104.1 cm (28 3/4 x 41 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
Object Number: 95.1942
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Thomas W. Leavitt, "The Disposition of the Washington Allston Trust", The Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Winter 1956), vol. XIX, no. 4, pp. 415-417, p. 416
The Paintings of Washington Allston, exh. cat., Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL, 1975), ill. p. 34
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. 58-59, cat. 15, ill.

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