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 viewLocations
- 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
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c. 1885
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1886