About the Artwork
Despair
1820
Samuel Lovett Waldo
1783-1861
American
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Oil on panel
Unframed: 33 × 25 1/2 inches (83.8 × 64.8 cm) Framed: 42 1/2 × 35 × 3 5/8 inches (108 × 88.9 × 9.2 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1991.173
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right, on land behind plant: S.L. Waldo | 1820
Provenance
1991-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Samuel Lovett Waldo, Despair, 1820, oil on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1991.173.
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