About the Artwork
William Sidney Mount
between 1829 and 1837
Shepard Alonzo Mount
1804-1868
American
Unknown
Oil on wood panel
Unframed: 9 × 6 inches (22.9 × 15.2 cm) Framed: 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 × 1 5/8 inches (35.2 × 27.6 × 4.1 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund
55.181
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed on verso, lower right: By S A Mount
Signed, on the back at lower right, By S. A. Mount Incised, on the back at upper center: May first [indecipherable]
Provenance
descended in the Mount family. 1938, Frederic Frazier, Inc.(New York, New York, USA). Harry Stone (New York, New York, USA). 1955, Argosy Gallery (New York, New York, USA). 1955-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 34, 4 (1954-1955): pp. 82-85 (ill.).
Oedel, W. The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings, Vol. I. Detroit, 1987.
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Shepard Alonzo Mount, William Sidney Mount, between 1829 and 1837, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund, 55.181.
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