About the Artwork
Elderly Woman
ca. 1720
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American
American
Oil on canvas
Overall: 25 3/4 × 22 inches (65.4 × 55.9 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
55.80
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
William Heath (Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA)
his granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Heath
her daughter, Mrs. Edwin A. Waldo
by 1927, dealer, Charles K. Bolton (Shirley, Massachusetts, USA). by 1947, dealer, M. Knoedler Co. ((New York, New York, USA)
by 1955, dealer, Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
1955-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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17th Century Painting in New England. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, MA, 1935, pp. 95-97.
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1. New York, 1991, p. 254.
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American, Elderly Woman, ca. 1720, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 55.80.
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