Frame for Dewing's Girl with Lute

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, the ogee frieze covered by a raised grill, the mesh with an inner border of feathers an outer of buds, overlaid with vines at the miters and enclosed by beaded borders, and with an ogee back edge.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Art for Art's Sake (July 23, 1997 to January 24, 2008)

  American Art - Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 9, 1993 to February 20, 1996)

  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)

  American Paintings: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (December 11, 1976 to April 16, 1977)

  American Paintings (April 15, 1975 to December 5, 1975)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 8 and 9 (February 25, 1956 to April 28, 1958)

  Special Dewing Centennial Exhibition (May 17, 1951 to July 1, 1951)

  American Paintings, T.W. Dewing (May 2, 1923 to March 23, 1925)

• 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

  1910s, 1900s

• Name

  LeBrocq, W. C., White, Stanford

• Place

  New York, United States

• Topic

  Gilding, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Frames