About the Artwork
Chest on Chest
1774
Nathan Bowen
1752-1837
American
Unknown
Mahogany, white pine, and brass
Overall: 90 1/2 × 45 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (229.9 × 115.6 × 59.7 cm)
Furniture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
48.274
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Incised, on bonnet-top: N.B. 1774
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Provenance
Made for Mary Ann Hidden and purchased from her descendents in the fifth generation
Israel Sack, Inc.
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Nutting, W. Furniture Treasury, Vol 1. Massachusetts, 1928, no. 315 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 28, 4 (1948): p. 96 (ill.).
100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 184-185 (ill.).
Randall, Richard H., Jr. "An Eighteenth Century Partnership." The Art Quarterly 23, 21 (Summer 1960): pp. 153-161 (ill.).
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Nathan Bowen, Chest on Chest, 1774, mahogany, white pine, and brass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 48.274.
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