Currently not on view
Christ Rejected,
1822
William Dunlap, American, 1766–1839
y1968-120
Information
Title
Christ Rejected
Dates
1822
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
71.2 x 91.2 cm (28 1/16 x 35 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund
Object Number
y1968-120
Signatures
W. Dunlap [underlined] / Norfolk, May 1822
Inscription
Inscribed, titled, signed, and dated in black paint on verso, upper right: This, the Original, Sketch of my / Christ Rejected is presented / to my friend T. Williamson as / a testimony of gratitude & esteem / by - / W. Dunlap [underlined] / Norfolk, May 1822
Culture
Type
Artist's inscription on reverse: "...presented to my friend T. Williamson...Norfolk, May, 1822"; purchased from Princeton Antiques, Nassau St., Princeton, NJ, 1968
- ed. Alexander J. Wall, Diary of William Dunlap, 1766-1839: the memoirs of a dramatist, theatrical manager, painter, critic, novelist, and historian, (New York: printed for The New York Historical Society, 1930). , Vol. 2: p. 587
- Alfreda J. Murck, "Acquisitions 1968", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 94-105., p. 100
- William H. Gerdts and Mark Thistlethwaite, Grand illusions: history painting in America, (Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988). , fig. 40; p. 77-78, 80
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Barbara Dayer Gallati, ed., Making American taste: narrative art for a new democracy, (New York: New York Historical Society; London: in association with D Giles Limited, 2011).
, fig. 6; p. 33 (illus.)
