Oil painting of a wooden board with small notes, letters, and printed material pinned to it.
Office Board for Christian Faser

Image courtesy of Schoelkopf Gallery, New York

Oil painting of a wooden board with small notes, letters, and printed material pinned to it.
Office Board for Christian Faser

On view

American Art
Wilmerding Pavilion
The Anschutz Foundation Gallery

Office Board for Christian Faser,

1881

John Frederick Peto, 1854–1907; born Philadelphia, PA; died Island Heights, NJ
2024-279

Information

Title
Office Board for Christian Faser
Dates

1881

Maker
John Frederick Peto
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
63.5 × 50.8 cm (25 × 20 in.) frame: 85.7 × 75.6 × 3.8 cm (33 3/4 × 29 3/4 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase in memory of John Wilmerding, with funds provided by the Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and the Katherine Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art, with additional support from the Department of Art & Archaeology
Object Number
2024-279
Culture
American
Type
paintings
Subject
trompe-l'oeil, realism

The artist; Christian Faser, Philadelphia; [Harry Shaw Newman, New York]; [Clifton Blake, Hoosick Falls, New York]; to [Ginsburg & Levy, New York]; to John W. Barnes, New York, by 1950; to Mrs. John W. Barnes, Silvermine, Connecticut, by 1965; to [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York]; to Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., Los Angeles, 1971; to [James Maroney, Inc., New York]; to Kathryn and Robert Steinberg, New York, until 1993; to [James Graham & Sons, New York]; [Hirschl & Adler, New York]; to Walter B. and Marcia F. Goldfarb, Portland Maine; to Estate of Walter B. Goldfarb, 2021

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