About the Artwork
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1815
Samuel Lovett Waldo
1783-1861
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 26 × 21 5/8 inches (66 × 54.9 cm) Framed: 31 × 26 1/4 × 2 7/8 inches (78.7 × 66.7 × 7.3 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
58.189
Public Domain
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Provenance
Captain William Booth (Stratford, Connecticut, USA).1920, Robert Friedenberg (New York, New York, USA).
1931-1938, Erskine Hewitt (New York, New York, USA);
October 20, 1938, sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, no. 770 (New York, New York, USA);
1938-1950, Norvin H. Green (Tuxedo Park, New York, USA);
December 2, 1950, sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, no. 594 (New York, New York, USA).
1958, Lawrence A. Fleischman (New York, New York, USA).
1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Inaugural Exhibition. Museum of the City of New York, 1933.
Four Centuries of American Art. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1963, no. 120.
Evans, D. The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings Volume 1, 1987.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Samuel Lovett Waldo, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1815, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, 58.189.
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