HNA86: Charles Pickering Bowditch (1842-1921)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

HNA86

People

Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, American (Passau, Bavaria 1855 - 1932 Boston, MA)
Charles Pickering Bowditch (1842-1921)
Frame by Charles Prendergast

Title

Charles Pickering Bowditch (1842-1921)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c.1907

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305158

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

112.1 x 91.8 cm (44 1/8 x 36 1/8 in.)
framed: 132.7 x 112.1 x 5.1 cm (52 1/4 x 44 1/8 x 2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.l. : I.M. Gaugengigl
• label: Mr. Gaugengigl/ 5 Otis Place/ City/ Meade Dodge Co./ Dealers in/ Artists Materials/ Stationary. Picture Framing/ 541 Boylston St. Boston
• manufacturer's mark: Prendergast --- 46 - 40 / 1907

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles Pickering Bowditch, c. 1907; his daughter, Cornelia Bowditch; their gift through Dr. Harold Bowditch to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1946.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the heirs of Charles Pickering Bowditch, through Dr. Harold Bowditch, to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1946

Object Number

HNA86

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 113, cat. 78, ill.

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