Lot 13 : JOHN F. PETO 1854-1907
Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Description:
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JAMES STEWART-GORDON
WINE AND BRASS STEWING KETTLE (PREPARATION OF FRENCH POTAGE)
WINE AND BRASS STEWING KETTLE (PREPARATION OF FRENCH POTAGE)
measurements
22 by 30 in.
alternate measurements
(55.9 by 76.2 cm)
inscribed Wine and Brass Stewing Kettle (Preparation of French Potage) J.F. Peto on a piece of original stretcher affixed to the reverse
oil on canvas
Painted circa 1890s.
PROVENANCE
Kennedy Galleries, New York (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 21, 1978, lot 7, illustrated)
Russian Tea Room, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above
EXHIBITED
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Penn's Promise: Still Life Painting in Pennsylvania 1795-1930, May-July 1988, no. 93
LITERATURE
The Kennedy Quarterly, October 1969, vol. 9, no. 88, illustrated p. 110 (as Wine Bottle and Brass Pot)
John Wilmerding, Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 78-79, illustrated fig. 59
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