H182: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), after Justus Suttermans

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H182

People

William Tolman Carlton, American (Boston, MA 1816 - 1888 Dorchester, MA)
Copy after Justus Suttermans, Flemish (Anvers 1597 - 1681 Florence, Italy)
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Title

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), after Justus Suttermans

Other Titles

Former Title: Portrait of Galileo, from the Original, in the Florence Gallery
Former Title: Head of Galileo--A Copy from Subterman's Piece in The Royal Gallery at Florence
Former Title: Head of Galileo--A Copy from Subtermans in The Royal Gallery at Florence

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c.1842

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311240

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

68.5 x 55.2 cm (26 15/16 x 21 3/4 in.)
framed: 85.1 x 73 x 8.9 cm (33 1/2 x 28 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the artist to Harvard University, 1890.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of W. T. Carleton to the University, 1890

Object Number

H182

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The original portrait of Galileo by Sustermanns is in the Uffizi Museum, Florence.

Publication History

• Boston Artists' Association, The Constitution of the Boston Artists' Association, with a Catalogue of the first public exhibition of paintings at Harding's Gallery, exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1842), cat. 110
• Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Second Exhibition, exh. cat. (Albany, NY, 1847), cat. 119
• Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Third Exhibition, exh. cat. (Albany, NY, 1848), cat. 156
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 19
• 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. 113, cat. 66, ill.

Exhibition History

• 1842 Exhibition, Boston Artists' Association, Boston, 01/01/1842 - 12/31/1842
• Second Exhibition, Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, 01/01/1847 - 12/31/1847
• Third Exhibition, Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, 01/01/1848 - 12/31/1848

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