Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   Search Images   About

Keyword Browse Combined Highlights Search History All Catalogs

Search:  Artist BrowseTitle BrowseSubject BrowseObject Type Browse Owner Browse       Refine Search     > You are only searching: Art Inventories

More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Gray, Henry Peters,     Literature -- Irving     Figure group -- Family     Architecture interior -- Domestic     State of Being -- Illness     Painting

The Pride of the Village, (painting). Artist:  Gray, Henry Peters, 1819-1877, painter. Title:  The Pride of the Village, (painting). Dates:  1858-1859. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm). Description:  The painting depicts a scene from Washington Irving's story "The Pride of the Village" from the "Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." in which a young woman whose beauty makes her the pride of the village falls ill when she hears that the army officer she has fallen in love with has been transferred to another post. The young woman seated in a chair with a pillow and blanket is comforted by her mother, seated next to her, holding her daughter's left hand. Her worried father seated at a table opposite her, holds her right hand. Subject:  Literature -- Irving -- Pride of the Village Figure group -- Family Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House State of Being -- Illness Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 49.166 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Osborn, William Henry, New York, New York 1859-1894. Osburn, William Church, New York, New York 1894-1949. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 104. Illustration:  Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 105. 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 36120408   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120408 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact