About the Artwork
Sofa
1869
L. Marcotte and Company
1849-1880
American
Unknown
Ebonized cherry and gilded bronze mounts
Overall: 40 3/4 × 72 × 26 inches (103.5 × 182.9 × 66 cm)
Furniture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Associates of the American Wing Fund
1984.40
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in black on proper left end seat rail: wood [The word is covered by reinforcing strips. See letter to Mr. Hutchison dated Sept 3, 1985.]
Provenance
Eliphalet Wood
Caroline Whitely Wood Rutter
Joseph Wood Rutter Rebeckah Rutter DuBois
Caroline Rutter and Esther Rutter
Mildred Rutter (Mrs. Joseph Wood Rutter)
Rebeckah DuBois Glazebrook
Carol Mali DuBois and Dr. Arthur B. DuBois
William Doyle Galleries
Peter Hill
1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Butler, Joseph T. "A Hudson River Portfolio." The Magazine Antiques 85, 4 (1964): pp. 432-437 (ill.). [Cf. p. 413 editorial]
Butler, Joseph T. American Antiques: 1800-1900: A Collector's History and Guide. New York, 1965, p. 63 (fig. 35).
"Recent Aquisitions." Bulletin of the DIA 63, 3-4: p. 56 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
L. Marcotte and Company, Sofa, 1869, ebonized cherry and gilded bronze mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Associates of the American Wing Fund, 1984.40.
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