Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Sitter:
Peter Stuyvesant
(Dutch, 1610 - 1672)
Peter Stuyvesant
Medium: Gouache on paper
Date: ca. 1930
Dimensions:
12 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (32.4 × 19.7 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996
Accession number: 96.1.60
Label Copy:
Identification of the figure comes from Andrew Wyeth, and researchers at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia feel that similarities with known portraits of Stuyvesant make the attribution likely.
The image is similar in size, medium and composition to N. C. Wyeth's portrait of Johan Printz, used as the frontispiece illustration to Christopher Ward's The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware 1609-64 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930). The present work may have been executed as an additional illustration for the publication. Alternatively, it may have been completed earlier, about 1926, as a preliminary study for Wyeth's life-size depiction of Peter Stuyvesant (NCW 2467), part of a commission for the Hotel Roosevelt.
Identification of the figure comes from Andrew Wyeth, and researchers at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia feel that similarities with known portraits of Stuyvesant make the attribution likely.
The image is similar in size, medium and composition to N. C. Wyeth's portrait of Johan Printz, used as the frontispiece illustration to Christopher Ward's The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware 1609-64 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930). The present work may have been executed as an additional illustration for the publication. Alternatively, it may have been completed earlier, about 1926, as a preliminary study for Wyeth's life-size depiction of Peter Stuyvesant (NCW 2467), part of a commission for the Hotel Roosevelt.
Research Number: NCW: 896
InscribedNone on recto or verso
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth
References
Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1145, p. 528, 529
Curatorial RemarksAndrew Wyeth believed the figure represents Peter Stuyvesant, and researchers at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia feel that similarities with known portraits of Stuyvesant make the attribution likely. The image relates to an oil on canvas version of Peter Stuyvesant (NCW 2467).
The image is similiar in size, medium, and composition to Wyeth's portrait of Johan Printz, used as the frontispiece illustration to Christopher Ward's The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware 1609-64 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930). The present work may have been executed as an additional illustration for the publication. Alternatively, it may have been completed earlier, ca. 1926, as a preliminary study for Wyeth's life-size depiction of Peter Stuyvesant (NCW 2467), part of a commission for the Hotel Roosevelt.
The image is similiar in size, medium, and composition to Wyeth's portrait of Johan Printz, used as the frontispiece illustration to Christopher Ward's The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware 1609-64 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930). The present work may have been executed as an additional illustration for the publication. Alternatively, it may have been completed earlier, ca. 1926, as a preliminary study for Wyeth's life-size depiction of Peter Stuyvesant (NCW 2467), part of a commission for the Hotel Roosevelt.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 1/2005