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Melchers, Gari,
Portrait group
Portrait male -- Reisinger, Hugo
Portrait male -- Melchers, Gari
Portrait male -- Melchers, Gari
Occupation -- Art
Architecture interior -- Studio
Object -- Art Tool
Object -- Art Tool
Painting
In the Studio (Gari Melchers and Hugo Reisinger), (painting).
Artist:
Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932, painter.
Title:
In the Studio (Gari Melchers and Hugo Reisinger), (painting).
Dates:
1912.
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
54 3/16 x 47 13/16 in. (137.6 x 119.9 cm).
Inscription:
(Upper left:) Gari Melchers/1912 (On back:) In the studio / (Hugo Reisinger / Gari Melchers) signed
Description:
Gari Melchers is seen looking at the viewer as he works of his portrait of Hugo Reisinger (1856-1914), who is seen in profile seated in a chair beside him. Melcher's left hand holds a paint brush to the canvas. His right hand holds a palette and additional brushes.
Subject:
Portrait group
Portrait male -- Reisinger, Hugo -- Knee length
Portrait male -- Melchers, Gari -- Knee length
Portrait male -- Melchers, Gari -- Self Portrait
Occupation -- Art -- Painter
Architecture interior -- Studio
Object -- Art Tool -- Palette
Object -- Art Tool -- Artist's Brush
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 56.88
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Reisinger, Hugo, New York, New York until 1914.
Reisinger, Hugo, estate of, 1915.
Reisinger, Hugo, Mrs. (Edmee Busch later Mrs. Busch Greenough), New York, New York by 1928-1955.
Reisinger, Curt H., by 1956.
References:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 381.
Illustration:
Coll. Cat.,"Gari Melchers: His Works in the Belmont Coll.," Univ. of Va, 1984, P.44.
Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 381.
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 36120547
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