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Painting (Portrait)
Sarah Middlecott Boucher (Mrs. Louis Boucher)
John Smibert
1726-1730
Category
Paintings
Creator/Artist/Maker
John Smibert (Artist)
Place of Origin
Boston; Massachusetts; Suffolk; New England; United States; North America
Materials
- Oil paint
- Canvas
Museum Object Number
1978.0112 A
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Complete Details
Object Number
1978.0112 A
Object Name
Painting (Portrait)
Title
Sarah Middlecott Boucher (Mrs. Louis Boucher)
Category
Paintings
Creator (Role)
John Smibert (Artist)
Place of Origin
Boston; Massachusetts; Suffolk; New England; United States; North America
Date
1726-1730
Subject(s)
- Portrait
Materials
- Oil paint
- Canvas
Techniques
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
50.5 (H) x 39.8 (W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
128.3 (H) x 101.2 (W)
Measurement Notes
H at proper right stretcher. W at bottom stretcher.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: 1939 American Portraits 1620-1825 Found in Massachusetts. 1.
• See cat. no. 229, p. 42.Book: Smibert, John. 1969 The Notebook of John Smibert. With essays by Sir David Evans, John Kerslake, Andrew Oliver, and with Notes relating to Smibert's American portraits by Andrew Oliver. 131 pp.
• See entry no. 33 for 1730, p. 89.Book: Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published as cat. no. 15, pp. 24-5.Book: Saunders, Richard H. 1995 John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter.
• Published as cat. no. 58, p. 165.Chapter: Prosser, Deborah I. "'The rising Prospect or the lovely Face': Conventions of Gender in Colonial American Portraiture". Book: Benes, Peter. 1995 Painting and Portrait Making in the American Northeast. 19. 181-200.
• Published as fig. 6, pp. 197-200.Thesis: Prosser, Deborah I. 1997 Visual Persuasion: Portraits and Identity Among Colonial Artists and Patrons 1700-1776. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania American Civilization
• See esp. pp. 235-236.