Baby in White Dress, with Cat on Chair
Artist
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CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1825-1850
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 30 x 24 1/8 in. (76.2 x 61.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Object number76.53.31
Not on view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting of a young girl standing beside a chair with a cat on it. She wears a white dress and red shoes/stockings on and looks out toward the viewer as she rubs around the ear of the gray cat with her right hand.ProvenanceMs. Edmonia R. Martin, Charleston, S.C., after 1945; Mr. Bartlett Hendricks, brother-in-law of previous owner, Pittsfield, Mass., 1971; Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch purchased February 4, 1971; On loan to the Chrysler Museum from Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1974-1976; Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch to the Chrysler Museum, 1976. Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Man's Best Friends," Selden Arcade, Norfolk, VA, August 27 - October 19, 2013.Published ReferencesForeword by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., preface by Clifford W. Schaefer, and introduction by Dennis R. Anderson, _48 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch_ (Norfolk, Va.: The Chrysler Museum, 1975), 61, plate 41. Dennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 54. Nancy Goyne Evans, _American Windsor Chairs_ (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1996), 166-167. ISBN: 1-55595-112-0 Mimi Handler, "Animals Always Wear The Same Suit," _Early American Homes_ 28, no. 1 (2/1997): 2.
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