Object Number 1957.0057.001 A, B

Object Name

Painting (Portrait)

Title

Chair-Maker's Emblem from the Chair-Maker's Society; Portait of a woman

Category

Paintings

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Anthony Imbert (Possible painter)
1794/5-1834
"Imbert is known as one of America's pioneers in lithography. A first lieutenant in the French Navy, Imbert was taken prisoner by the British in 1810 and during his confinement studied drawing and painting. Shortly after his arrival in New York, he was commissioned to prepare thirty-seven lithographic plates for the illustrations in Colden's Memoir, celebrating the opening of the Erie Canal. His two-sheet panoramic print entitled Grand Canal Celebration: View of the Fleet Preparing to Form in Line has been viewed by scholars as a technical milestone in the pioneering art of American lithography." (ULAN) References: Peters, America on Stone, pp. 228-35. Listed in New York City directories: 1825 painter, 146 Fulton Street 1826-28 79 Murray Street 1828-29 233 Broadway 1829-32 104 Broadway 1832-33 79 Murray Stret 1833-35 104 Broadway 1838-39 Imbert, Mary widow of Anthony, boys' clothing, 186 Canal Street

Place of Origin

United States, North America

Date

1825-1830

Subjects

Allegory

Materials

Oil paint; Tulip poplar

Techniques

Painted

Dimensions (inches)

16.9 (H) , 13.8 (W) , 4.3 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

43 (H) , 35 (W) , 11 (D)

Measurement Notes

Measurements from conservation file.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover & Howat, John K. 2000 Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861.
• See print, fig. no. 234, p. 288.