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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H182
People
William Tolman Carlton, American (Boston, MA 1816 - 1888 Dorchester, MA)
Copy after Justus Suttermans, Flemish (Anvers 1597 - 1681 Florence, Italy)
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Title
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), after Justus Suttermans
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of Galileo, from the Original, in the Florence Gallery
Former Title: Head of Galileo--A Copy from Subterman's Piece in The Royal Gallery at Florence
Former Title: Head of Galileo--A Copy from Subtermans in The Royal Gallery at Florence
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c.1842
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311240

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68.5 x 55.2 cm (26 15/16 x 21 3/4 in.)
framed: 85.1 x 73 x 8.9 cm (33 1/2 x 28 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the artist to Harvard University, 1890.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of W. T. Carleton to the University, 1890
Object Number
H182
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The original portrait of Galileo by Sustermanns is in the Uffizi Museum, Florence.

Publication History

  • Boston Artists' Association, The Constitution of the Boston Artists' Association, with a Catalogue of the first public exhibition of paintings at Harding's Gallery, exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1842), cat. 110
  • Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Second Exhibition, exh. cat. (Albany, NY, 1847), cat. 119
  • Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Third Exhibition, exh. cat. (Albany, NY, 1848), cat. 156
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 19
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 60
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 113, cat. 66, ill.

Exhibition History

  • 1842 Exhibition, Boston Artists' Association, Boston, 01/01/1842 - 12/31/1842
  • Second Exhibition, Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, 01/01/1847 - 12/31/1847
  • Third Exhibition, Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, 01/01/1848 - 12/31/1848

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