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Girl Watching Picheons from a Window in the Dining Room of the Late Abraham M. Cozzens, Bond Street, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Lang, Louis 1814-1893  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1941.593
Date:
1864
Notes:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 530.
Summary:
Interior scene of a little girl leaning against the window frame looking out at pigeons feeding from a dish beside the window, while other pigeons swoop down toward a tiered bird bath in the garden outside the window. Beyond the garden is a greenhouse with bird perched on the glass tiled roof.
Topic:
Architecture interior--Domestic--House  Search this
Architecture interior--Domestic--Dining Room  Search this
Architecture interior--Domestic--Cozzens  Search this
Architecture interior--Detail--Window  Search this
Landscape--Garden  Search this
Figure female--Child  Search this
Animal--Bird--Pigeon  Search this
Control number:
IAP 06910370
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_36058