Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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Geography:
Europe; France
Culture:
American
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Collection:
GW Collection
Accession Number:
CGA.73.13
Credit Line:
Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of George W. Riggs)
Date:
1808
Keywords:
Portrait; Figure; Science; Nature; Literature; 19th Century
Copyright:
Public domain
Object Type:
Painting
Dimensions:
Stretcher 73.66 H x 60.33 W cm (29 H x 23 3/4 W in)
Frame 96.52 H x 83.82 W x 6.35 D cm (38 H x 33 W x 2 1/2 D in)
Provenance:
Charles Willson Peale Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1854; (M. Thomas & Sons Auctioneers, Philadelphia, PA), October 6, 1854; Purchased by George Ord [1781-1866], Philadelphia, PA; George W. Riggs [1813-1881], New York, 1873; Gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, August 25, 1873-2018; Gift to the George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2018
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Bibliography:
Dorothy W. Phillips (Author), A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art: Volume 1, Painters Born Before 1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, vol. 1, p. 40, ill. p. 40 (black and white)
Sarah Cash (Editor), Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2012, ill. p. 312 (black and white)
Biography of Paintings Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1890-1895, Corcoran Gallery of Art Registrar's Office Records, 1869-2013 (COR RG 5.1), Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., p. 439
Register of Paintings Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1869-1946, Corcoran Gallery of Art Registrar's Office Records, 1869-2013 (COR RG 5.1), Special Collections Research Center, Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., p. 12, no. 78
M. Thomas & Sons, Auctioneers, Peale's museum gallery of oil paintings [...] Catalogue of the national portrait and historical gallery, illustrative of American history [...] formerly belonging to Peale's museum, Philada. To be sold without reserve, at public sale [...] 6th Oct., 1854 at [...] Philadelphia. M. Thomas & sons, auctioneers [...], W. Y. Owen, printer, Philadelphia, 1854, p. 13, no. 231
Richmond Laurin Hawkins (Author), "Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Peale's Philadelphia Museum. The History of a Portrait", Romanic Review, Romanic Review, January 1929, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 1, ill.
M. C. Cook (Author), Bernardin De St Pierre, 1737-1814: A Life of Culture, Routledge, London, 2006, ill. cover
Lillian B. Miller (Editor), The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770–1870 (Exh. cat.), Abbeville Press with the Trust for Museum Exhibitions and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 1996
Lillian B. Miller (Author), In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale 1778-1860, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; University of Washington Press, Washington, D.C., Seattle, 1992
Official Catalogue. Part X, Department K, Fine Arts, W.B. Conkey Company, Publishers to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, 1893, p. 59, no. 2843 (lists it as "Portrait of Bernardin de St. Pierre")
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Exhibition History:
Conservation in the Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art [1869-2014], Washington DC, September 15, 1972 - October 22, 1972
The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770–1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, November 3, 1996-January 5, 1997; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, January 25-April 6, 1997; Corcoran Gallery of Art [1869-2014], Washington, DC, April 26-July 6, 1997
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893, January 01, 1893 - December 31, 1893
In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale 1778-1860, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, December 06, 1992 - February 07, 1993
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