Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 84.12b
Date:
1866
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
American Art Journal, V.7, No.2, 1975.
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. 197.
Pennington, Estill Curtis, "Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920," Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011, pg. 67.
Summary:
In this second of a series of three, an African-American male wearing his military uniform, his rifle over his shoulder, stands on guard at the provost marshal's office where he enlisted.
