Painting
- Title:
- Matilda Johnson Ingalls
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2006.052.03
- Creator:
- Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Portrait of Matilda Johnson Ingalls (Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte), by Walter Ingalls (1805-1874), c. 1870. Oval portrait on vertical rectangle canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman with brown, curly hair parted down the center and done up. Coral drop earrings, gold chain, and red coral brooch. White lace high collar with white bodice. Brown background. Pencil inscription on left side of reverse of frame: "Mrs Ingalls". Gilded gesso over rectangle wood frame, gilded spandrels, high-relief corner floral and foliate designs, plain cove.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-27 W-22 inches
- Provenance:
- One of four paintings owned by artist's son, Captain Napoleon Bonaparte Ingalls (1830-1922) of Portland, OR. The paintings descended to artist's great-grandson, George Leighton Jones of Burlingame, CA, who, upon his death in 1980, bequeathed them to donors.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Robert and Grace Bove
- Subjects:
- Matilda Johnson, Ingalls, Portraits, Portrait paintings
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