Original frame for Dewing's A Portrait

Object Details

• Artist

  Designed by Stanford White (1853-1906)

• Frame maker

  W. C. LeBrocq

• Description

  A gilded cassetta frame, the sight edge with leaf and berry molding and cross straps at the center points and corners surrounded by a beaded border, the frieze with a raised grill, the mesh with inner feather and outer bud ornament overlaid with vines at miters, with an outer border of beading and an ogee back edge.

• Provenance

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the maker in 1907 [1]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] According to Provenance Remark 1 in the object record, this frame was purchased from W.C. LeBrocq, New York, on November 16, 1907.

  [2] 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.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Thomas Wilmer Dewing (January 3, 1985 to May 7, 1985)

  American Painting: To Dream of Fair Women (September 24, 1982 to February 29, 1984)

  Thomas Wilmer Dewing (June 19, 1980 to March 18, 1981)

• Previous custodian or owner

  W. C. LeBrocq (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  New York, New York, United States

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Frame

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s

• Name

  LeBrocq, W. C., Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  New York, United States

• Topic

  Gilding, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Frames