About the Artwork
Child in White with Doll
ca. 1835
Zedekiah Belknap
1781-1858
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 28 1/2 × 24 5/8 inches (72.4 × 62.5 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of the Estates of Edgar W. and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
81.831
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Provenance
(probably) by 1937, (The Downtown Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
by 1938, Mrs. George S. Kaufman (Beatice Bakrow Kaufman) [1895-1945]
until 1963, Hillary Underwood
by 1981, Edgar and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Three Centuries of American Art. Exh. [cat. ?], Museum of Modern Art [organizer]. Jeu de Paume, Paris [installed], May 24-July 31, 1938.
Mankin, Elizabeth R. “Zedekiah Belknap.” Antiques 110, 5 (November 1976): p. 1069. [as Girl Holding Doll and Wearing Miniature]
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts Volume 1: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, pp. 30-31 (ill.).
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Zedekiah Belknap, Child in White with Doll, ca. 1835, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estates of Edgar W. and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 81.831.
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