Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2349Location: BostonDate / Time: February 18, 2007 11:00AM
Description:
American School, 19th Century
Portrait of Miss Smith of Poughkeepsie, New York. Unsigned. Oil on panel, portraying a half-length portrait of the girl, with upswept brown hair and curls framing her face, wearing a pink dress with a white ruff, a coral beaded necklace, seated on a chair, 10 1/8 x 8 1/4 in., in a gilt gesso frame. Condition: Very good.
Provenance: Ex Maxim Karolik collection with a Boston Museum of Fine Arts label affixed to the reverse.
Note: Another old label on the reverse reads "Miss Smith of Poughkeepsie, New (York)."
Estimate $3,000-5,000