The Card Players
- Date
- 1846
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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18 1/2 x 25 in. (47.0 x 63.5 cm)
Framed: 27 1/8 x 33 9/16 x 2 5/8 in.
- Department
- American Art before 1950
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
- Accession No.
- 55.175
- Provenance
- Thomas Foster, Utica, N,Y., 1847-49
William J. Hoppin, from 1849.
The Hoppin Family.
Argosy Gallery, New York
Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., Grosse Pointe, Mich.
Acquired in 1955
- Keywords
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canvas, paint, genre
Published References
Baltimore, Cariss's Store, May 1847.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, 1847, no. 11 1/2.
Boston Athenaeum Annual, 1847.
New York, American Art-Union Annual, 1847, no. 180.
New York, American Art Union Annual, 1849, no. 1366.
New York 1853, no. 87.
Providence 1854, no. 170.
New York, Artists' Fund Society Annual, 1860, no. 77.
Philadelphia, Centennial Exposition, 1876, no. 81.
Raleigh 1960, no. 15.
Washington et al. 1967, no. 7. Buffalo et al. 1976, no. 18.
WILLIAM WOODVILLE V to Charles Folsom, July 22, 1847, and October 3, 1847
LIBRARY OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM.
WILLIAM WOODVILLE V to American Art Union, October 26, 1847, and November 14, 1847, NEW YORK, HISTORICAL SOCIETY
"FINE ARTS. PLAYING AT CARDS IN AN INN-By R.C. Woodville," New York Evening Express, November 27, 1847, 1.
BULLETIN AMERICAN ART UNION, May 1849, Oct 1849, May 1850, Sept 1850.
Cowdrey, Bartlett, AMERICAN COLLECTOR, vol 13, April, 1944, p 6.
DIA BULLETIN, vol 35, no 1, 1955-56, pp 12-14, (ill).
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, TOBACCO AND SMOKING IN ART, 1960, p 92, no 15.
ART NEWS, vol 66, no 3, May 1967, p 31 (ill).
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, N. Y., High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA., Brooklyn Museum, N. Y., RICHARD CATON WOODVILLE: AN EARLY AMERICAN GENRE PAINTER, April 21, 1967-April 5, 1968, no 7 (ill).
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y., DIA, Toledo Museum of Art, OH., Cleveland Museum of Art, OH., HERITAGE AND HORIZON, Mar 6-Oct 10, 1976, no 18 (ill).
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT FREE PRESS, May 20, 1979, p 15 (ill).
