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Dancers in Repose Edgar Degas
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Jonathan Mountfort

Date: c. 1753
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 37 1/2 x 32 5/8 x 2 5/16 in. (95.25 x 82.87 x 5.87 cm) 29 1/4 x 24 1/2 in. 74.3 x 62.2 cm
Department: American Art before 1950
Classification: Paintings
Credit: Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
Accession No.: 58.360
Provenance: Jonathan Mountfort, Boston, ca. 1753-85; Mrs. Thomas Pitts [Elizabeth Mountfort], Boston (?), (his daughter); Sarah Pitts Farlin, Detroit, by 1883 (her daughter); S. Lendall Pitts, Detroit, by 1938 (her great nephew); Mrs. S. Lendall Pitts, Norfolk, Virginia. DIA in 1958
Keywords: canvas, oil, paint, three quarter length, portrait

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