Museum Collections
Luce Center
A Sibyl
Title
A Sibyl
Date
1839
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 30 1/2 x 25 in. (77.5 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 42 x 36 7/8 x 5 in. ( 106.7 x 93.7 x 12.7 cm )
Credit Line
Gift of the American-Art Union
Object Number
1863.9
Inscriptions
stencil on stretcher: 182; paper label on stretcher: "182 THE SYBIL, (25 X 30" DANIEL HUNTINGTON / PRESENTED BY THE AMERICAN ART UNION, APRIL 7, 1863"
Provenance
American Art-Union, New York, 1850
Bibliography
Transactions of the American Art Union for the year 1845, New York: Printed for the Association by John Douglas, 1850, n.p.
Transactions of the American Art Union for the year 1846, New York: G.F. Nesbitt, Stationer and Printer, 1847, p. 13.
Montgomery, Walter, ed., "Daniel Huntington, President of the National Academy of Design," American Art and American Art Collections: Essays on Artistic Subjects by the best art writers, fully illustrated with etchings, photoetchings, photogravures, phototypes, and engravings on steel and wood by the Most Celebrated Artists, Boston: E.W. Walker & Co., 1978, pp. 19-37.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 185-6.
Savidou-Terrono, Evdokia, For "The Boys in Blue": The Art Galleries of the Sanitary Fairs, A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Art History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of NewYork, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 733, 737-8.
Greenhouse, Wendy, "Daniel Huntington and the Ideal of Christian Art," Winterthur Portfolio Vol. 31, No. 2/3, Summer-Autumn 1996, pp. 103-40.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.





