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  • Portrait female -- Vas, Petrus, Mrs. (Elsie Rutgers Schuyler)
     
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    Elsie Rutgers Schuyler (Mrs. Petrus) Vas (1674-after 1752), (painting).
    Artist: 
    Duyckinck, Gerardus, 1695-1746, painter. (attributed to)
    Vanderlyn, Pieter, ca. 1687-1778, painter. (formerly attributed to)
    de Peyster Limner, Active 1715-43, painter. (formerly attributed to)
    Title: 
    Elsie Rutgers Schuyler (Mrs. Petrus) Vas (1674-after 1752), (painting).
    Dates: 
    1723.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    44 x 35 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) Aetatis. 49/1723
    Description: 
    Three-quarter-length portrait of Elsie Rutgers Schuyler Vas seated with her left arm resting on a wooden chest. A Bible is on the table near her arm. She wears a loose brown robe and a white headdress.
    Subject: 
    Portrait female -- Vas, Petrus, Mrs. (Elsie Rutgers Schuyler) -- Knee length
    Object -- Written Matter -- Bible
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Albany Institute of History and Art, 125 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12210 Accession Number: 1957.104
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Vas, Petrus, Mrs., family of, until 1957.
    Gift of Cogswell, Ledyard, Jr., Mrs., (Dorothy Treat Arnold), 1957.
    Remarks: 
    Elsie Rutgers first married David Davidse Schuyler in 1694; after his death Elsie married Dominie Petrus Vas of Kingston, New York.
    References: 
    "Albany Institute of History & Art: 200 years of collecting," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with Albany Institute of History & Art, 1998, no. 2.
    "Hudson Valley Paintings, 1700-1750, in the Albany Institute of History and Art," Albany, 1959.
    Exh.checklist "Merchants & Planters of Upper Hudson Valley". Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, Ny, 1967.
    Black, Mary, "What is American in American art," New York: M. Knoedler, 1971.
    Flexner, "Pieter Vanderlyn, Come Home" Antiques, June 1959.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    "Albany Institute of History & Art: 200 years of collecting," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with Albany Institute of History & Art, 1998, pg. 47.
    Bishop, Folk Painters of Amer., E.p.dutton, N.y., 1979, Fig.90
    Black, Mary, "What is American in American art," New York: M. Knoedler, 1971, no. 2.
    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 33220001
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