Signed on back of canvas: R S Duncan[illegible] 1846
Signed and dated with brush on back of canvas: R S Duncan[illegible] 1846
Oil on canvas
Gift of William T. Berthelet
52.207
African American Art
Signed on back of canvas: R S Duncan[illegible] 1846
Signed and dated with brush on back of canvas: R S Duncan[illegible] 1846
1846-83, Joseph Berthelet (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Berthelet family. William Thomas Berthelet [d. 1952]
1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Porter, J. A. "Robert S. Duncanson, Midwestern Romantic Realist." Art in America 39, no. 3 (Oct. 1951): 122-123, 148 (ill.). Ten Afro-American Artists of the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Howard University. Washington, D.C., 1967, p. 14. Robert S. Duncanson. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, 1972, no. 3, p. 37. Gibson, A. H. Artists of Early Michigan. Detroit, 1975, p. 95 (ill.). Duncanson: A British-American Connection. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, North Carolina Central University. Durham, NC, no. 8.
Robert S. Duncanson, William Berthelet, 1846, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William T. Berthelet, 52.207.