Making Believe, (painting).

Making Believe, (painting).

Guy, Seymour Joseph, 1824-1910, painter.

Making Believe, (painting).

15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.48 cm).

(Upper right:) SJGuy / 1870 / (SJG in monogram) signed

Portrait female -- Guy, Anna -- Child

Recreation -- Sport & Play

Sotheby's, New York, New York

Formerly in the collection of Unknown Gallery, New London, Connecticut

Nathan Liverant and Son, Colchester, Connecticut 1975.

Ganz, Jo Ann & Julian Jr., Los Angeles, California 1975-2008.

This work is a later version of the artist's "Making a Train," (1867, Philadelphia Museum of Art) and may depict the artist's daughter Anna.

Sotheby's (New York), Sale N08495 (Dec. 3, 2008), lot 14.

"An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr.," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981.

Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr., unpublished checklist, March 1, 1976.

"An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr.," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981, fig. 52.

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