Object Number 1956.0565 A

Object Name

Painting (Portrait)

Title

Unknown woman

Category

Paintings

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Gerrit Duyckinck (Painter)
1660-c.1710
Portrait of his wife, Mrs. Gerrit Duyckinck (Mary Abeel; 1666-1738), c. 1700-10, is at the New-York Historical Society, Bequest of George Abeel, 1918.6.

Place of Origin

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1690-1710

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Oil paint; Tulip poplar

Techniques

Painted

Dimensions (inches)

32.1875 (H) , 24.75 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

81.756 (H) , 62.86 (W)

Measurement Notes

Measurements taken from conservation files; not specified where taken. Panel edges not visible on reverse, measurement can only be taken by sight.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Bishop, Robert. 1979 Folk Painters of America.
• Published as fig. 99, pp. 72-3.
[Book] Cooper, Wendy A. 2002 An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum.
• Published as fig. 5, pp. 31-33.
[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published as cat. no. 9, pp. 14-15.
[Chapter] Sherrill, Sarah B. "America and the Oriental Carpet: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" [Book] Bacharach, Jere L. & Bierman, Irene A. The Warp and Weft of Islam: Oriental Carpets and Weavings from Pacific Northwest Collections. 35-46.
• Published as fig. 1, p. 37. According to Sherrill, "The design of the table covering is loosely based on the medallion Ushak carpet pattern, which was woven at Ushak in western Anatolia from the 16th century through the 19th and is one of the most frequen
[Article] Sherrill, Sarah B. 01//1976 Oriental Carpets in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century America. Antiques. 109 (1): 142-65.
• Published as pl. I, p. 143. Dicussed on pp. 151-2.
[Book] Kennedy, David M. & Cohen, Lizabeth. 2015 The American Pageant.
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