LÉON COGNIET (FRENCH, 1794-1880)

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21.01.2022 14:00UTC -04:00
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ID 696125
Lot 349 | LÉON COGNIET (FRENCH, 1794-1880)
LÉON COGNIET (FRENCH, 1794-1880)

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. 
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