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Painter:
Blashfield, Edwin Howland 1848-1936  Search this
Subject:
Commodus  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Hermitage Foundation Museum Norfolk Virginia 23505
Date:
1878
Notes:
"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. 6.
Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 164.
Weiner, Mina Rieur, ed., "Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist," New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2009, pg. 56.
Image on file.
Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, fig. 60.
Paris Salon of 1878, Paris, 1878.
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:
History--Ancient--Rome  Search this
Occupation--Military--Gladiator  Search this
Portrait male--Full length  Search this
Architecture--Classical  Search this
Figure group  Search this
Control number:
IAP 88690010
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_361510