Portrait #182

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Morris, David
  • Artist:Boudon, David 1748- c 1816
  • Date Created:1815 December
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:2 3/4" x 2 3/16"
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:2/22/2004
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Original rectangular gilded wood with black painted spandrels and gilded band around picture. Young man with auburn hair in blue overcoat in three-quarter right view. Subject is looking hard right also. Three-quarter view, which is unusual for Boudon since over half of his works are profiles. Signed on paper inside fram "DdBoudon Fecit / Ddbr 1815"/
  • History:Slight restoration on frame by Katherine Eirk. Probably painted near Wheeling, (West) Virginia Exhibited at Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000 Illustrated in Huntsville Catalog