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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H85
People
Clinton Peters, American (Baltimore, MD 1865 - 1948 Newtown, CT)
Henry Sanford Gansevoort (1834-1871)
Title
Brig. Gen. Henry Sanford Gansevoort (1834-1871)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1907
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304961

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.7 x 48.9 cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.)
framed: 88.9 x 78.7 x 15.2 cm (35 x 31 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: CLINTON PETERS 1907
  • label: plaque "HENRY S. GANSEVOORT/ CAPT 5th US ARTILERY, BBT -BRIG GEN VOL USA/ 1834-1871" (discolored, old nicks and scratches)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Mrs. Abraham Lansing, sister of General Gansevoort, to Harvard College, 1907

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Abraham Lansing, sister of General Gansevoort, to Harvard College, 1907
Object Number
H85
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@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. 61

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