LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

61.00 in. (154.94 cm.) (height) by 44.00 in. (111.76 cm.) (width)

Literature:

M. Knoedler & Co., advertisement, Art and Decoration, February 1922. John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington (1931), pp. 32-34, nos. 20, 27. Gustavus A. Eisen, Portraits of Washington, vol. 2 (1932), p. 359.

Provenance:

Mlle de la Frenaye (Fresnaye), probably Marguerite de la Frenaye (circa 1856-1940), Paris and Verte-en-Drouais, France. Pierre Girauld de Nolhac (1859-1936), Paris and Verte-en-Drouais, husband of niece of above Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., Paris and New York in joint account with M. Knoedler & Co., purchased from above in 1922 Mortimer Loeb Schiff (1877-1931), New York City and Oyster Bay, Long Island, purchased from above in 1925 John Mortimer Schiff (1904-1987), son