Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Legends of Charlemagne, endpaper illustration
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1923 / 1924
Dimensions:
22 1/2 × 34 in. (57.2 × 86.4 cm)
Private collection, Chattanooga, TN
Accession number: SUPP2000.1483
Research Number: NCW: 1483
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth, to ca. 1980
Exhibition HistoryMarietta, GA, 1998, no numbers
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 69; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 200; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.945, p. 451
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unillustrated earlier edition of this book that the artist read and annotated in preparation for the commission (NCWS.95.183).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Jim Madden, 8/2004