Catalyntje Post

Provenance

Recorded as from New York State. Descended in the Post family until it was sold by Miss Katharine Olcott.[1] (Fred J. Johnson, Kingston, New York), by whom sold in 1950 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980. [1] Miss Olcott owned the work by 1949, according to the caption to the photograph of this painting in Alice Ford's _Pictorial Folk Art: New England to California_, (New York and London, 1949), 55.

Catalyntje Post

American 18th Century

c. 1747

Accession Number

1980.62.34

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 133.6 x 90.4 cm (52 5/8 x 35 9/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch