Click here to loginLoginView my BookbagMy List - 0HelpHelp
 Search 
 Search Images 
 About 
   
KeywordBrowseCombinedHighlightsSearch HistoryAll Catalogs
More Smithsonian Searches
 
 Who else has...
 
  •  
    		• Pratt, Matthew,
     
  •  
    		• Portrait group -- Family
     
  •  
    		• Portrait male -- Colden, Cadwallader
     
  •  
    		• Portrait male -- De Lancey, Warren
     
  •  
    		• Architecture interior -- Domestic
     
  •  
    		• Object -- Written Matter
     
  •  
    		• Painting
     
     
    Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776) and His Grandson Warren De Lancey (1761-1842), (painting).
    Artist: 
    Pratt, Matthew, 1734-1805, painter.
    Title: 
    Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776) and His Grandson Warren De Lancey (1761-1842), (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1771-1775.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    50 x 40 in. (127.0 x 101.6 cm).
    Description: 
    Portrait of an elderly Cadwallader Colden seated at a table, his right hand resting on the shoulder of his grandson, Warren De Lancey, standing beside him. Colden's left hand rests on the table, on top of a document detailing the motion of the planets around the sun. Behind him a globe rests on top of the table.
    Subject: 
    Portrait group -- Family
    Portrait male -- Colden, Cadwallader -- Knee length
    Portrait male -- De Lancey, Warren -- Knee length
    Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House
    Object -- Written Matter
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 69.76
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of De Lancey, Peter, Mrs., New York, New York until 1784.
    Coster, O. de Lancey, New York, New York
    Coster, Harry A., New York, New York
    Kountze, de Lancey, New York, New York by 1932.
    Swords, Peter de Lancey, Mt. Kisco, New York until 1969.
    References: 
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
    "Life in America; a special loan exhibition of paintings held during the period of the New York World's fair, April 24 to October 29, 1939," (Metropolitan Museum of Art) N.Y.: Scribner Press, 1939.
    Sawitzky, William, "Matthew Pratt, 1734-1805," New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1942, pg. 46-48.
    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. 61.
    Illustration: 
    "Life in America," Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y.: Scribner Press, 1939, Pl. 67.
    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. 63.
    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 36121081
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    Smithsonian AmericanArt MuseumControl Number 
    Inventory of American Paintings36121081Add Copy to MyList

    Format:HTMLPlain textDelimited
    Subject: 
    Email to:


    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
     Powered by SirsiDynix
    About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact
    SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System