Helen Searle Pattison 1830-1884

Estate of the artist
Penelope Pattison Allen Chapman (the artist's granddaughter)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1975
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1975

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., October 1981-September 1982, p. 91, illustrated p. 155

Lined; under UV: two vertical repaired tears in upper register, some small scattered retouches to background along left and right edges; no inpainting to fruit.
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