About the Artwork
Painted Chest
ca. 1790
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American
American
Painted pine
Overall: 25 × 54 × 23 1/2 inches (63.5 × 137.2 × 59.7 cm)
Furniture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
41.127
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, center front of chest: Catrina Bern | 1790
Provenance
Israel Sack, Inc.
1941-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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American, Painted Chest, ca. 1790, painted pine. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 41.127.
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