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Unknown 19th Century

Portrait of a Young Lady, c. 1835

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 61.3 x 46 cm (24 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.)

framed: 81.3 x 66.4 x 8.3 cm (32 x 26 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.1

Artists / Makers

Unknown 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

Falsely lower left: JJAudubon

Provenance

(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); sold 12 April 1922 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 1947 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

1923: Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 13, as Anna Cora Mowatt by John James Audubon.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue, as Anna Cora Mowatt by John James Audubon.

1939: Life in America [A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings Held During the Period of the New York World's Fair], The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1939, no. 77, repro., as Mrs. James Mowatt (Anna Cora Ogden) by John James Audubon.

1940: An Exhibition of Great Paintings in aid of the Canadian Red Cross, Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1940, no. 74, as Mrs. James Mowatt by John James Audubon.

1940: Romanticism in America; or, An Elegant Exposition of Taste and Fashion From 1812 to 1865, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1940, unnumbered, as Mrs. James Mowatt by J. J. Audubon.

1944: John Trumbull and his Contemporaries, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, 1944, no. 44, as Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt, Attributed to John James Audubon.

1948: American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1948.

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.

1951: Audubon Paintings and Prints from the Colletion of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1951.

1952: [Opening exhibition of new art gallery], Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1952-1953, no cat.

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.

1964: Extended loan for use by Blair House, Washington, D.C., 1964-1984.

Bibliography

1928: Barker, Virgil. "Portraiture in America before 1876." The Arts 13, no. 5 (May 1928): 286.

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 Anna Cora Mowatt by John James Audubon.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 162, repro., as by American (?).

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 306, as by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 415, repro.