ID 696125
Lot 349 | LÉON COGNIET (FRENCH, 1794-1880)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Painted in 1836
oil on canvas
26 x 21 3⁄4 in.
Provenance
Thomas W. Strong (1817-1892), New York, Newark and Metuchen, New Jersey
Mrs. Edith W. Soutar, East Orange and Newark, New Jersey, acquired from estate of above
William Macbeth, Inc., New York, by purchase from above, November 1931
Frances Payne Bolton (Mrs. Chester C. Bolton) (1885-1977), Cleveland, Ohio, by purchase from above
By descent to the present owner
Literature
George Washington Parke Custis, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington (Philadelphia, 1861), p. 481.
George C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart (New York, 1879), pp. 98-99.
Frick Art Reference Library, no. 521-1c.
| Artist: | Léon Cogniet (1794 - 1880) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Artist: | Léon Cogniet (1794 - 1880) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
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