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Painter:
Watrous, Harry Willson 1857-1940  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 35.130
Date:
Ca. 1930-1935
Notes:
Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 314.
Summary:
A still life showing a table on which there are various religious artifacts and a relief depicting three cardinals and four priests celebrating mass before an altar. The model for this relief was described in the 1940 sale catalog of the artist's estate as a Spanish piece dating from the early sixteenth century.
Topic:
Still Life  Search this
Object--Art Object--Sculpture  Search this
Ceremony--Religion--Mass  Search this
Religion--Christianity  Search this
Recreation--Church  Search this
Figure group--Male  Search this
Occupation--Religion--Clergy  Search this
Control number:
IAP 36121173
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_42931