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Artist Unknown , German, 19th century
Woman with a Book
19th century
Image Caption
Artist Unknown , German, 19th century, Woman with a Book, 19th century, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.729
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
31 11/16 x 15 15/16 in. (80.5 x 40.5 cm)
Object Number
1955.729
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
F[rederic] F[airchild] S[herman].. "Two Portraits by Frank Duveneck.. Art in America, 35:2.. (April 1937).. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Chapellier Gallery.. Frank Duveneck.. New York.. 1972. Weintraub, Stanley. Whistler, A Biography. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1974. Washington (DC): National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution. Academy: The Academic Tradition in American Art: An Exhibition Organized on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1975. June 6-Sept. 1, 1975. (Cat. by Lois Marie Fink, Joshua C. Taylor). Gloucester (MA): Cape Ann Historical Association.. Frank Duveneck: The Gloucester Years. (Exh.cat. by Martha Oaks.). July 31-Nov. 7, 1987.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Count Ivan Podgoursky; [Clyfford Trevor, New York, sold to Clark, 27 Jan. 1945, as Portrait of Maude Franklin, by Frank Duveneck]; Robert Sterling Clark (1945–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.