Frame for Dewing’s The Blue Dress

A gilded cassetta frame, the sight edge with leaf and berry molding and cross straps at the center points and corners surrounded by beading, the ogee frieze covered by a raised grill with inner feather and outer bud ornament overlaid with vines at the miters, and with outer bead and reel border. Burnishing bronze surface may be original.

Maker(s)
Designer: Stanford White (1853-1906)
Historical period(s)
ca. 1913
Medium
Gilded wood
Dimensions
H x W x D (outside): 99.1 x 83.8 x 7.6 cm (39 x 33 x 3 in)
Geography
United States, New York, New York
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1913.8b
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Frame
Type

Frame

Keywords
United States
Provenance

To 1913
Thomas W. Dewing (1851-1938), to 1913 [1]

From 1913 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Thomas Wilmer Dewing in February 1913 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Curatorial Remarks, Linda Merrill, December 1993, in the object record. Also see List American Paintings other than Whistler, A, pg. 9, 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) and Custodian(s)

Thomas Wilmer Dewing 1851-1938
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Description

A gilded cassetta frame, the sight edge with leaf and berry molding and cross straps at the center points and corners surrounded by beading, the ogee frieze covered by a raised grill with inner feather and outer bud ornament overlaid with vines at the miters, and with outer bead and reel border. Burnishing bronze surface may be original.

Collection Area(s)
American Art
Web Resources
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