Erastus Salisbury Field (Massachusetts/New York, c. 1805-1900) Portrait of a Dwarfed Boy in a Red Dress Holding a Rattle

Description:

Erastus Salisbury Field (Massachusetts/New York, c. 1805-1900)

Portrait of a Dwarfed Boy in a Red Dress Holding a Rattle
Unsigned.
Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 in., in a maple frame with block corners.
Condition: No obvious retouch.

Provenance: James Abbe, Oyster Bay, New York; Joan Washburn, New York; Private New England Collection; Sotheby's, June 27, 1985, Lot 278; Skinner, October 28, 1989, Lot 452.

Literature: Exhibition catalog 19th Century American Folk Art: From the Collection of James Abbe, Jr. (Washburn Gallery, New York); Mary C. Black exhibition catalog Erastus Salisbury Field 1805-1900, p. 64.

Exhibitions: 19th Century American Folk Art: From the Collection of James Abbe, Jr., Washburn Gallery, New York, September 12-October 6, 1979; Erastus Salisbury Field, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, February 5-April 1, 1984; National Museum of American Arts and Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, June 10-September 4, 1984; Museum of American Folk Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November-December, 1984; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, January-February, 1985.
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $8,000-12,000


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