AMERICAN SCHOOL (MID-19TH CENTURY)

Lot 535
24.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1362371
Lot 535 | AMERICAN SCHOOL (MID-19TH CENTURY)
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
AMERICAN SCHOOL (MID-19TH CENTURY)
PORTRAIT OF A FREE MAN OF COLOR
oil on canvas
8 ¾ x 6 ½ in.




Provenance

Private collection, New Orleans Garden District, circa 1968
New Orleans Auction Galleries, 21 January 2001, lot 1127
Dr. Glynne Couvillion, New Orleans and Montecito, California
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, 16 November 2023, lot 220



Literature

William Keyse Rudolph, “Searching for Julien Hudson” in In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans, Erin Greenwald, ed. (New Orleans, 2010), pp. 90-91, fig. 67 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New Orleans, Louisiana, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Museum of Art and Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans, 20 January-20 April 2011 (New Orleans), 22 July-16 October 2011 (Charleston), and 10 December 2011-11 March 2012 (Worcester).
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