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Duncanson, Robert S.,
Figure group
State of Being -- Other
Architecture exterior -- Commercial
Architecture exterior -- Domestic
Painting
The Drunkard's Plight, (painting).
Artist:
Duncanson, Robert S., 1821-1872, painter.
Title:
The Drunkard's Plight, (painting).
Dates:
1846.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
15 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (38.7 x 50.2 cm)
Inscription:
(Lower right:) Duncanson Pinxit 1845 signed
Description:
Genre scene with a woman, child and drunken man who wears tattered clothes standing out front an inn. A shattered jug is on the ground. Another woman and child stand in the doorway of a cabin in the background.
Subject:
Figure group
State
of
Being
--
Other
--
Intoxicated
Architecture exterior
--
Commercial
--
Hotel
Architecture exterior
--
Domestic
--
Cottage
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 44.277
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Roys, James A., Detroit, Michigan ca. 1845-1904.
Roys, Ella Grace, Detroit, Michigan 1904-1944.
Acquired 1944.
References:
"American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 2: Works by artists born 1816-1847," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1997, no. 19.
"Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965.
Porter, James A., "Ten Afro-American artists of the Nineteenth century," Washington, D.C.: Gallery of Art, Howard University, 1967.
Msu Michigan Biap Survey, 1975; Dr. Sadayoshi Omoto files, 1994.
Illustration:
Image on file.
"American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 2: Works by artists born 1816-1847," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1997, pg. 68.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 24150155
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