Self Portrait

between 1860 and 1861

William Page American, 1811-1885

On View

American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Self Portrait

Artwork Date between 1860 and 1861

Artist William Page

Life Dates 1811-1885

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 59 × 36 inches (149.9 × 91.4 cm) Framed: 67 3/8 × 44 × 4 1/4 inches (171.1 × 111.8 × 10.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Page, Blinn S. Page, Lowell Briggs Page and Mrs. Leslie Stockton Howell

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 37.60

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Provenance

1893, the artist's son, William S. Page

1936, his son, George S. Page (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) [owned jointly with his wife, Delilla B. Page, his sons, Blinn S. Page (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA) and Lowell Briggs Page and his daughter, Mrs. Leslie Stockton Howell (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)]

1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

International Expositions. Exh. cat., London, 1862, no. 2882.

Some Descriptions of a Few Pictures Painted by William Page. Exh. cat., The Studio Building. New York, 1867, no. 16.

Exhibition of William Page’s Pictures. Exh. cat., National Academy of Design. New York, n.p.

Part X, Department K, Department Fine Arts. Exh. cat., World’s Columbian Exposition. Chicago, p. 59, no. 2840a.

Sheldon, George W. American Painters. New York, 1879, p. 179.

Richardson, Edgar P. “Two Portraits by William Page.” Art Quarterly 1 (Spring 1938): pp. 90-91, 99-100.

Romantic Painting in America. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1943, p. 140.

The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800 to 1875. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, p. 12, no. 13.

Travelers in Arcadia. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1951, pp. 55-56, no. 81.

Richardson, Edgar P. Painting in America: The Story of 450 Years. Detroit, 1957, p. 183.

Taylor, Joshua C. William Page: The American Titian. Chicago, 1957, pp. 168-171, 175, 270, no. 82 (fig. 42).

_______________. “The Fascinating Mrs. Page.” Art Quarterly 20 (Winter 1957): p. 361.

Richardson, Edgar P. Painting in America: The Story of 450 Years. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1957, p. 183.

Art of the United States: 1670-1966. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1966, pp. 50, 152, no. 206.

Goodrich, Lloyd. Three Centuries of American Art. New York, 1966, p. 60.

McCoy, Garrett. “William Page and Henry Stevens: An Incident of Reluctant Art Patronage.” Journal of the Archives of American Art 7 (July-October 1967): pp. 15-16.

Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century. New York, 1969, p. 240 (ill.).

Flexner, James Thomas. “Nineteenth-Century American Painting.” Antiques 98 (September 1970): p. 435.

__________________. Nineteenth-Century American Painting. New York, 1970, pp. 142-144, 146.

American Self-Portraits. Exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1974, pp. 90-91, no. 38 (ill.).

Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume I. New York, 1991, pp. 144-146, no. 63 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

William Page, Self Portrait, between 1860 and 1861, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Page, Blinn S. Page, Lowell Briggs Page, et al., 37.60.