PaintingsAmerican19th century
The Vanity of the Artist's Dream
1830
Artists
Charles Bird KingArtist
Dimensions
89.2 x 74.9 cm (35 1/8 x 29 1/2 in.) frame: 109.2 x 94.6 x 5.1 cm (43 x 37 1/4 x 2 in.)
Provenance
James Fullerton, Boston (by 1832); Thomas R. Walker, Utica, NY; by descent to Muriel Matthews; purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1942.
Related Artworks
View MorePaintings
A Venetian Woman in a Scarlet Shawl ("Gigia Viani")
John Singer Sargent, 1880
Oil on canvas
19th centuryAmericanPaintings
Morning Call
Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, 1876
Oil on canvas
19th centuryAmericanPaintings
Samuel King Williams (1785-1874)
Gilbert Stuart, 1824
Oil on canvas
19th centuryAmericanPaintings
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon
Edward Moran, 1865
Oil on canvas
19th centuryAmericanPaintings
James Mills Peirce (1834-1906)
Alfred Quinton Collins, 1884
Oil on canvas
19th centuryAmericanPaintings
Half-Length Portrait of a Shirtless Young Man
Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century
Oil on canvas
19th-20th centuryAmericanPaintings
Landscape with Road and Buildings
Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century
Oil on canvas
19th-20th centuryAmericanPaintings
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Thomas Buchanan Read, 1859
Oil on canvas
19th centuryAmericanPaintings
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Unidentified Artist, 19th-20th century
Oil on canvas
19th-20th centuryAmericanPaintings
Samuel Cooper Thacher (1785-1818)
Gilbert Stuart Newton, c. 1815-1816
Oil on wood panel
19th centuryAmericanPaintings
October Noon
George Inness, 1891
Oil on canvas
19th centuryAmericanPaintings
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Unidentified Artist, 19th-20th century
Oil on canvas
19th-20th centuryAmerican