Collection Highlights
Salver
1772-1773
1928.24
Silver
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Luce Center
Adeline Wooster Owen
Title
Adeline Wooster Owen
Date
1866
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line
Bequest of Adeline Owen, through her sister, Mrs. Frederick P. Mudge
Object Number
1958.138
Marks
signed and dated: lower right: "Peter Baumgras/Dec. 1866"
Gallery Label
The artist came to America from his native Bavaria in 1853, and by 1859 he had established his studio in Washington, D.C. He remained in Washington throughout the decade of the 1860s, and it was probably there that he painted this portrait, which was donated to the Society by granddaughters of the subject.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
