Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 69.76
Date:
Ca. 1771-1775
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
"Life in America; a special loan exhibition of paintings held during the period of the New York World's fair, April 24 to October 29, 1939," (Metropolitan Museum of Art) N.Y.: Scribner Press, 1939.
Sawitzky, William, "Matthew Pratt, 1734-1805," New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1942, pg. 46-48.
Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 61.
Summary:
Portrait of an elderly Cadwallader Colden seated at a table, his right hand resting on the shoulder of his grandson, Warren De Lancey, standing beside him. Colden's left hand rests on the table, on top of a document detailing the motion of the planets around the sun. Behind him a globe rests on top of the table.
