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Mrs. Job Perit (1760-1829), (painting). Artist:  Moulthrop, Reuben, 1763-1814, painter. Title:  Mrs. Job Perit (1760-1829), (painting). Dates:  1790. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  36 1/4 x 29 3/4 in. (92.1 x 75.6 cm). Inscription:  (On back, visible before canvas lining:) Sally Perit, aetat. 29 / A. D. 1790 Ruben Molthrop. Pinxit signed Description:  Portrait of Mrs. Job Perit wearing a dress with lace cuffs, a shawl, and a large hat with ruffles and ribbons. Around her neck she wears an oval miniature, which she holds up with her right hand. The miniature portrait is said to portray her daughter Elizabeth Perit, who was about five when the artist painted Mrs. Job Perit and her husband. Subject:  Portrait female -- Perit, Job, Mrs. (Sally Stanford) -- Waist length Dress -- Accessory -- Jewelry Dress -- Accessory -- Hat Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 65.254.2 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Thomas, Ralph W., New Haven, Connecticut 1957. Garbisch, Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler, 1957-1965. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 229. Illustration:  Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 229. 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 36121055   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36121055 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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