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Defiance: Inviting a Shot Before Petersburg

Date1864
Object PlaceUnited States, North America
MediumOil on panel
ClassificationsPaintings
Dimensions18 × 12 inches (45.72 × 30.48 cm)
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase with funds from Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
Object number51.66
DescriptionWar scene on a desolate flat field with many tree stumps. In the center, a man stands on a mound of dirt and looks out towards a distant troop at left. Behind him, a troop of armed men in a trench.
On View
On view
Locations
  • Exhibition   Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 4, American Art, Gallery 4
ProvenanceFormerly in the collections of: Knoedler, New York, 1951 Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950 Macbeth Gallery, 1931 Pascal M. Gatterdam, New York, 1931 Edward Ward McMahon, New York, 1929 Woolworth Baldwin Collection, American Art Association, 1927 Knoedler, 1927 Thomas R. Ball, New York, 1919 Frederick S. Gibbs, New York, 1904