Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The duel
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
33 × 24 1/2 in. (83.8 × 62.2 cm)
Private collection, Katonah, NY
Accession number: SUPP2000.275
Research Number: NCW: 275
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY); Miss Anita Woeller, New York, NY; (?); (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY); Private collection; (Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY, 1976); John and Florian K. Bloxom, Yakima, Washington, to 2004
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Chadds Ford, PA, 1985
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 219, illustration in b/w p. 115; David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth, A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), illustration in color after p. 244; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.977, p. 470; Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad, edited by Barry Menikoff, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 2016, plate no. 7;
Curatorial RemarksThe artist's library includes Scribner's 1905 unillustrated edition of the story (NCWS.95.203) which Wyeth read and marked in preparation for the commission.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Peter Ralston, www.pralston.com