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German 19th Century

An Artist and His Family, c. 1830

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75 x 63.5 cm (29 1/2 x 25 in.)

framed: 97.2 x 85.7 x 7.6 cm (38 1/4 x 33 3/4 x 3 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1942.8.7

Artists / Makers

German 19th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest); sold 3 January 1921 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1922: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Artists, The Union League Club, New York, March 1922, no. 13, as The Artist Krimmel and His Family by John Lewis Krimmel.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Mus. of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered, unpaginated cat., as The Artist Krimmel and His Family by John Lewis Krimmel.

1943: American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1943.

1950: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950.

1951: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.

1953: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1956: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956.

Bibliography

1923: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "John Lewis Krimmel's Portrait of Himself and Family." Art in America 11, no. 1: 57-58, repro.

1928: Barker, Virgil. "Portraiture in America before 1876." The Arts 13, no. 5: 280-281.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered, as The Artist Krimmel and His Family by John Lewis Krimmel.

1948: Louchheim, Aline. "Children Should Be Seen." Art News Annual 46 (1948): 71, color repro.

1952: Rutledge, Anna W., and James W. Lane. "110 Paintings in the Clarke Collection. Report on Projects of October 1951-October 1952." Typescript in NGA curatorial files.

1955: Naeve, Milo Merle. "John Lewis Krimmel, His Life, His Art, and His Critics." M.A. thesis, University of Delaware, 1955.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 168, repro.

1975: Bridgeman, Harriet, and Elizabeth Drury. The Encyclopedia of Victoriana. New York, 1975: 266, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 150, repro.

1975: Harding, Anneliese. America Through the Eyes of German Immigrant Painters. Boston, 1975: 12-13, repro., as "The Artist and His Brother's Family, present location unknown."

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 308, as The Artist and His Family.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 30, repro.

1987: Naeve, Milo M. John Lewis Krimmel. Newark, 1987: 186, no. 117 (rejects attribution to Krimmel).

1994: Harding, Anneliese. John Lewis Krimmel. Winterthur, Delaware, 1994: 185-189, color repro. 187 (reasserts attribution to Krimmel).

2000: Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 360-364, repro.