Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Marget was cheerful by help of Wilhelm Meidling
Alternate Title(s):Medieval Courtship
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1916
Dimensions:
40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1261
Research Number: NCW: 1261
InscribedLower right: N C WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist to ca. 1920; (?); Eugene Peterson (artist and instructor at Pratt Institute), and descended in family, to 1999; Cawley Family Collection
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1917, no. 468, as "Medieval Courtship"; possibly Brooklyn, NY, 1920
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 260; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.638, p. 333
Curatorial RemarksA letter to Joseph Chapin of Scribner's regarding the paintings for this story makes it clear that Wyeth owned the originals although Harper's held the right to purchase them. If he had the opportunity, Wyeth planned to sell them for $150.00 each. (NCW to Joseph H. Chapin, undated but between May and Nov. 1916 by context, Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons, Princeton University Library). The painting's place in Philadelphia, PA, 1917, is verified by a reproduction in the exhibition catalogue.
"I spent some of the time in the [New York Public] library looking up medieval data concerning my forthcoming books...." (NCW to ANW, 2/26/1916, WFA).
"I spent some of the time in the [New York Public] library looking up medieval data concerning my forthcoming books...." (NCW to ANW, 2/26/1916, WFA).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Herb Crossan, 11/1999