Victory

between ca. 1875 and 1878

William Rimmer American, 1816-1879

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About the Artwork

Title Victory

Artwork Date between ca. 1875 and 1878

Artist William Rimmer

Life Dates 1816-1879

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. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 20 × 27 inches (50.8 × 68.6 cm) Framed: 25 1/16 × 32 1/8 × 2 1/2 inches (63.7 × 81.6 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund

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. 69.293

Markings

Signed Signed, lower right: W. Rimmer Signed and dated, below outstretched rear legs of horse: W. Rimmer 1870

Inscriptions Inscribed, on lower stretcher bar (in faded ink): Victory as (or ar; before this appears to be the top or middle cross bar of a "t") subject | painted by W. Rimmer; label on back Museum of Fine Arts | W. J. Gardner | 498 Boylston | no frame 35; another label on back, 1818 (this is the shipping label for the Boston venue for New York 1946); another label on back, Paul L. Grigaut, Detroit

Provenance

W. J. Gardner (Boston, Massachusetts, USA).
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Gunn (Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA).
Castano Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts, USA).
1946, Paul L. Grigaut (Detroit, Michigan, USA).
Estate of Paul L. Grigaut.
1969-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Rotan, Mary. Folder on Rimmer’s painting, Victory. Notations from viewing the painting on November 25, 1946. Frick Art Reference Library, New York.

The American Muse: Parallel Trends in Literature and Art. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959, no. 67.

A Connoisseur’s Choice: From the Collection of Paul L. Grigaut. Exh. cat., Univeristy of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1969, no. 52.

Hood, Graham, Kathleen Pyne, and Nancy Rivard. “American Paintings Acquired during the Last Decade.” Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 2 (1977): pp. 84-87.

Weidman, Jeffrey. “William Rimmer: Creative Imagination and Daemonic Power.” Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies 10 (1983): pp. 560-570.

“Family Art Game.” Detroit News, April 29, 1984, p. 4 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo. Exh. cat., Art Museum/Fuller Memorial. Brockton, Massachusetts, 1985, pp. 64-65, no. 26.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

William Rimmer, Victory, between ca. 1875 and 1878, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 69.293.