H215: Le Baron Russell Briggs (1855-1934)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H215

People

Edmund C. Tarbell, American (West Groton, MA 1862 - 1938 New Castle, NH)
LeBaron Russell Briggs (1855-1934)

Title

Le Baron Russell Briggs (1855-1934)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1914

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/300058

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

244.8 x 152.4 cm (96 3/8 x 60 in.)
framed: 266.7 x 175.3 x 7 cm (105 x 69 x 2 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: Tarbell-1914

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard College Classes of 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915 to the University, 1914

Object Number

H215

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 28, ill. p. 29
• Patricia Jobe Pierce, Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting, 1889-1980, Pierce Gallery (Hingham, MA, 1980), p. 188, ill.

Exhibition History

• Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/22/1916 - 02/13/1916
• The Work of the Guild of Boston Artists Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/27/1942 - 12/01/1942

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