Signed and dated, lower left: J. Trumbull | 1793
John Trumbull, 1793
- John Trumbull, American, 1756-1843
Oil on canvas
- Unframed: 30 × 24 inches (76.2 × 61 cm)
- 35 3/4 × 30 3/4 × 2 7/8 inches (90.8 × 78.1 × 7.3 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund
38.13
Department
American Art before 1950
Details
the sitter's great-grand-daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Metcalf (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
“John Trumbull, Poet and Hartford Wit.” Art Bulletin 31, 1 (March 1949). Sizer, Theodore. Works of Colonel John Trumbull. New Haven, CT, 1950, p. 55, no. 25. “The John Trumbulls and Mme. Vigee Le Brun.” Art Quarterly 15, 2 (Summer 1952): pp. 170-178 (ill.). Myers, B.S., ed. Encyclopedia of Painting. New York, 1970, p. 477 (ill.). Gerdts, W.H. “The American ‘Discourses’: A Survey of Lectures and Writings on American Art, 1770-1858.” The American Art Journal 15, 3 (1983): p. 63 (ill.).
John Trumbull, John Trumbull, 1793, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 38.13.