Lot 609
  • 609

* Jacob Maentel (1763 - 1863)

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Description

  • Jacob Maentel
  • A Portrait of a Young Girl in a Fancy Blue Dress with Lace Collar, Holding a Rose
  • watercolor on paper
  • 10 1/2 by 8in. 26.7 by 20.3cm
painted circa 1830.

Provenance

Colonel Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Pokety, Cambridge, Maryland
Sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, Americana: Miniature Portraits and Small Watercolors from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch,, April  29, 1977, Sale 3981, lot 416
Ralph Esmerian, New York
David Wheatcroft, Westboro, Massachusetts

Exhibited

On Display, New York Historical Society, June 1971 - March 1977

Catalogue Note

The elaborate treatment of the child's clothing is very similar to the costumes of female subjects seen in his interior portraits, as shown in Stacy C. Hollander, American Radiance, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2001, pp. 40 and 42, figs. 14a and 15a.