Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Peter Minuet
Alternate Title(s):Peter Minuit
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1926
Dimensions:
41 3/4 × 29 7/8 in. (106 × 75.9 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2119
Research Number: NCW: 2119
InscribedLower right: N. C. WYETH 1926; on reverse, Kennedy Gallery label
ProvenanceHotel Roosevelt, New York, NY; (?); (with Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 1958); (?); (Kennedy Galleries, NY, NY); Courtaulds to ca. 1998 and by corporate merger to AksoNobel; (Christie's, New York, NY, March 25, 2015, lot no. 27);
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 174, b/w illustration; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), M.27, p. 610, 611
Curatorial RemarksThis painting was done in conjunction with a second commission the artist received for decorations for the Hotel Roosevelt. On May 10, 1926, he wrote to his father from New York (on Hotel Roosevelt stationary) referring to some sketches he had with him and would show the architect shortly: "they are for a map... and four portraits (imaginary) of Peter Stuyvesant, his wife, Peter Minuet,...and a fourth, a lady yet undecided upon." (NCW to Andrew Newell Wyeth, May 10, 1926, Wyeth Family Archives)
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:1. Photography from artwork
Photo Credit:archival photograph courtesy of Douglas Allen