Accession #68.11.132

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Portrait of Lady with Corsage
  • Artist:Carl Gutherz, American (b. Switzerland), 1844-1907
  • Date Created:1895
  • Owner/Location:Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Ave Memphis, TN 38104 901-544-6200
  • Frame Dimensions:Currently unframed
  • Image Dimensions:33 1/2" x 32 3/4"
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:31 May 2008
  • Condition:Poor, presently on an unstretched canvas.
  • Description:Bust length, frontal portrait of a young woman in an extravagant pink dress embellished with pearls and gathered sleeves. She is wearing a corsage of red and pink flowers on her proper right shoulder. Her brown hair is pulled up and she is wearing jeweled earrings and necklace. Portrait set in a circular shape.
  • History:Signed: UL: Carl Gutherz W.D.C. 1895 Artist lived and worked in Memphis ca. 1860-1875. Painted while the artist lived and worked in Washington D.C. from 1895 to 1907.
  • Notes:Provenance: Gift of the artist's son. - Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall F. Goodheart Image courtesy of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art - Reproduction by permission only.