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Portrait of Mrs. Gabriel Manigault

Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828). Portrait of Mrs. Gabriel Manigault, 1794. Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches (76.8 x 64.1 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; James G. Forsyth Fund, 1923 (1923:13.2).

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Gilbert Stuart

American, 1755-1828

Portrait of Mrs. Gabriel Manigault, 1794

oil on canvas

image (oval): 28.25 x 23.25 inches (71.76 x 59.06 cm); support: 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches (76.83 x 64.13 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

James G. Forsyth Fund, 1923

1923:13.2

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Inscriptions

inscription / back (now covered) / Mrs. Gabriel Manigault / Margaret Izard / nat. 1768 ob. 1824 / Gilbert Stuart pinxit / New York 1794 / This is the original picture and belongs to Louis Manigault the elder

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel and Margaret Manigault, Charleston, South Carolina, 1794-1824;
to Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Henry (son of the sitter) and Ann Heyward Manigault, Charleston, 1824-1855;
to their son, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heyward Manigault, Charleston, 1855-1886;
to Louis Manigault (son of Charles Izard Manigault, the youngest son of the sitter), Charleston, 1886-1899;
to Charles Manigault, Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, 1899-1907;
to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Parsons, New York, 1907-1923;
to Erich-Newhouse Galleries, New York;
sold to the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, November 24, 1923

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Work Type

Oil painting

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