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Lamentations Over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Pearce, Charles Sprague 1851-1914  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Culture:
Egyptian  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th & G Streets, N.W Washington District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1985.28
Date:
1877
Notes:
Sotheby's, Sale 5255 (Dec. 6, 1984), lot 66.
Karol Lawson, NMAA Staff, 1989.
"Americans in Paris, 1850-1910: the acadamy, the salon, the studio, and the artist's colony," Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2003, no. 85.
Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 105.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006.
"Americans in Paris, 1850-1910: the acadamy, the salon, the studio, and the artist's colony," Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2003, pg. 66.
Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pl. 11.
Sotheby's, Sale 5255 (Dec. 6, 1984), lot 66.
(Lower left:) CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE/PARIS signed
Paris Salon of 1877, Paris, 1877.
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Topic:
Figure group  Search this
Religion--Old Testament--Exodus  Search this
Ethnic  Search this
Architecture interior  Search this
State of Being--Emotion--Sorrow  Search this
State of Being--Death  Search this
Object--Toy--Doll  Search this
Control number:
IAP 63005178
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_122560