Family Group

Provenance

(Helena Penrose, Southbury, Connecticut, until 1964), (sale, Southbury, Connecticut, October 20-23, 1964); to (John Bihler and Henry Coger as agents) Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] by bequest to NGA, 1980. [1] The provenance as given in Caroline Weekley et al., _Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter_ [exh. cat.], Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, (Williamsburg, Virginia, 1987), 132, is incorrect.

Family Group

Johnson, Joshua

c. 1800

Accession Number

1980.61.3

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 88.5 x 136 cm (34 13/16 x 53 9/16 in.) | framed: 101 x 148 x 5.6 cm (39 3/4 x 58 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch