The Mirror

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Provenance

To 1907
N. E. Montross (1849-1932), New York, NY, to 1907 [1]

From 1907 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from N. E. Montross on October 17, 1907 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Freer to Montross, 17 October 1907, and Montross to Freer, 18 October 1907, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Previous Owner(s): Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
N. E. Montross (C.L. Freer source) 1849 - 1932

Published References

Thomas Lawton Linda Merrill. Freer: a legacy of art. Washington and New York, 1993. pp. 168-169, fig. 115.
Charles Henry Caffin. The Art of Thomas W. Dewing. vol. 116, no.695, April 1908. p. 720.
Susan Hobbs. The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured. Exh. cat. Washington, 1996. p. 36, fig. 27.
Martha Banta. Imaging American Women: Ideas and Ideals in Cultural History. New York, 1987. fig. 8.26.
et al. Ten American Painters. Exh. cat. New York, May 8 - June 9, 1990. fig. 41.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings of Ten American Painters: exhibition held Apr. 11 - May 3, 1908. Exh. cat. Philadelphia. no. 35.
Kathleen Pyne. Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keefe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle. Berkeley. pl. 9.