Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 05.35
Date:
1859
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
American Art Journal, V.5, No.2, 1973.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 88.
Summary:
View of the front porch at Mount Vernon, where George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette stand opposite one another, enjoying a relaxed conversation. Lafayette leans against a column, a copy of the Pennsylvania Gazette in his hand. At a nearby table, Martha Washington is sewing, and her daughter-in-law Mrs. Stuart, the former Mrs. John Parke Custis, reads a note. Mrs. Stuart's daughter, Eleanor Parke Custis leans against Mrs. Washington, her toy hoop and hat lie on the ground beside her. Just outside the porch, Mrs. Stuart's son, George Washington Parke Custis, plays with a toy cannon, assisted by an African American woman. Two dogs stand nearby, and sheep graze in the distance.
Topic:
Architecture exterior--Civic--Mount Vernon Search this
