Portrait of a Boy | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.139
People: Walter Libbey, American (1827-1852)
Title: Portrait of a Boy
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1842
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/311172

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

25.6 x 20.6 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
framed: 44.1 x 39.1 x 11.4 cm (17 3/8 x 15 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: verso: by W-- Libbe/ Feb 1842

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.139

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

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. 339, cat. 301, ill.

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