LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Size Notes:

Frame

Markings:

Signed and dated "Augst. Edouart fecit 1842/ Boston, U.S.," l.r., the reverse with old label inscribed "Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. Parker/ Mr. Parker, their son/ Mrs. Edward Quincy, their daughter."

Condition:

In a bird's-eye maple frame

Literature:

This silhouette will be included in Robert Mussey and Clark Pearce's "Classical Excellence in Boston: The Grecian Furniture of Isaac Vose, 1815-1825" in the forthcoming book "Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture," edited by Brock Jobe, published by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Provenance:

Jess Pavey, Birmingham, Michigan; Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Sotheby's "Important Americana: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer," January 20, 1996, lot 171