Elderly Woman, ca. 1720

  • American

Oil on canvas

  • Overall: 25 3/4 × 22 inches (65.4 × 55.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

55.80

On View

  • American, Level 2, West

Department

American Art before 1950

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)

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.

American, Elderly Woman, ca. 1720, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 55.80.