The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Portrait of a Gentleman

Portrait of a Gentleman

Related Content

Mrs. George Catlin (Clara Bartlet Gregory)

Mrs. George Catlin (Clara Bartlet Gregory)

Joseph Stallings

Joseph Stallings

Portrait of a Gentleman

Portrait of a Gentleman

United States Military Academy at West Point, Looking South

United States Military Academy at West Point, Looking South

United States Military Academy at West Point, Looking North

United States Military Academy at West Point, Looking North

Browse current and upcoming exhibitions and events.

American Art
May 3, 2013
Home in the Gilded Age
May 3, 2013
American Art
May 4, 2013
Geology, Transcendentalism, and American Landscape Painting
May 4, 2013
American Art
May 5, 2013
American Art
May 8, 2013

Portrait of a Gentleman

George Catlin (1796–1872)

Date:: 1827
Medium:: Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (6 x 4.8 cm)
Classification:: Paintings
Credit Line:: Purchase, Gift in memory of Elizabeth B. Besobrasow, 1985
Accession Number:: 1985.141.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 754

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: [on obverse, lower right, scratched]: G. Catlin 1827

Inscription: [on locket verso, pressure sensitive label, now removed]: E. Grosvenor Paine [printed in blue ink]/ 266 [written in blue ink] [inside case, left compartment, printed on paper]: CUI DEBEO FIDUS [under an eagle with an arrow] [inside case, on lined paper]: Clara B Catlin / Wife of / George Catlin / Died in Paris / France / Painted in oil on Ivory / By Geo. Catlin

Marking: [on locket verso, interior]: 12 [over] XII
See also
Who
George Catlin (7)
What
Paintings (12,464)

Watercolors (11,584)

Bone (6,328)

Ivory (5,389)

Miniatures (1,070)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,186)
In the Museum
American Paintings and Sculpture (5,395)
MetPublications
Search for related Met publications

20010773