Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802) / Rembrandt Peale / After Charles Willson Peale
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- Accession Number
- 1895.76
- Title
- Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802)
- Artist
- Rembrandt Peale
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1778-1860
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1858
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Henry C. Lewis
- Style/Group/Movement
- Neoclassical
- Inscription
- Inscribed l.l.: Rembrandt Peale
- Inscribed verso l.c.: Martha Washington / painted by / Rembrandt Peale - 1858 /from an Original by C.W. Peale - 1795.
- Dimensions
- 91.2 cm x 73.9 cm (35 7/8 in. x 29 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- portrait
- Physical Description
- Bust-length portrait of a woman with grey hair in a cream colored dress seated in a red chair with a view of the landscape to right of figure seen through an illusionistic stone oval window or oculus.
- Subject Matter
- Based on a portrait of Martha Washington by his father, Charles Willson Peale, in 1795, this is one of several posthumous portraits of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731-May 22, 1802) painted by Rembrandt Peale in the 1850s. The stone oculus surrounding the sitter mirrors Peale’s “porthole portraits” of George Washington, which he framed in stone to underscore the subject’s monumentality and to serve as an allusion to the Roman Republic, whose ideals were continually invoked by the Founding Fathers.
- Secondary Keywords
- architectural elements
- architecture
- atmospheric effects
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- figures
- objects we use
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by gender
- the natural world
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- windows and window components
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2427 x 3024
- File Size
- 258 KB
- Record
- 1895.76
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"Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802); Rembrandt Peale; After Charles Willson Peale." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1895.76/1895.76.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
