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Mount, William Sidney,
Figure group -- Male
Recreation -- Sport & Play
Architecture interior -- Farm
Animal -- Bird
Painting
The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose), (painting).
Artist:
Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868, painter.
Title:
The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose), (painting).
Dates:
1836-1837.
Medium:
Oil on mahogany.
Dimensions:
17 x 23 1/8 in. (43.2 x 58.8 cm).
Description:
The scene depicts an interior of a barn, with six fashionably dressed men standing around a dead goose resting on a makeshift table. The men eagerly watch as one man reaches in his hat to draw the winner of the goose raffle.
Subject:
Figure group -- Male
Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Lottery
Architecture interior -- Farm -- Barn
Animal -- Bird -- Goose
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 97.36
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Brevoort, Henry, New York, New York 1837-ca. 1852.
Williams and Stevens, New York, New York 1852.
Roberts, Marshall O., New York, New York 1853-1880.
Ortgies and Company, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, New York Sale (Jan. 19-21, 1897), no. 124.
Gift of Crimmins, John D., New York, New York 1997.
References:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum,. Vol. I, 1965, pg. 246-247.
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. 513.
Illustration:
Image on file.
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. 514.
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 36120205
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