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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H375
People
Daniel Huntington, American (New York, NY 1816 - 1906 New York, NY)
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)
Title
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1897
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304769

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
125.7 x 100.3 cm (49 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.)
framed: 152.4 x 126.4 x 15.2 cm (60 x 49 3/4 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on paper on table: D Huntington
  • label: on frame, plaque, English: Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin 1761-1849/ Secretary of Treasure 1801-1814/by/Daniel Huntington/Presented by Albert, Horace and Goelet Gallatin.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased by sitter's grandson, Frederic Gallatin, 1897-98; descended in family to grandsons Albert, Horace, and Goelet Gallatin; their gift to Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1928.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Albert, Horace, and Goelet Gallatin, great-grandsons of Albert Gallatin, for the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1928
Object Number
H375
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 60
  • 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), p. 285, cat. 232, ill.

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