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Source Description
Blauvelt studied with Charles Loring Elliott and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. He pursued a career as a genre and portrait painter, before settling in Annapolis, Maryland where he taught draftsmanship at the Naval Academy. Blauvelt was among the artists whom William T. Walters encountered during his forays in the New York art market just prior to the Civil War, acquiring 5 works by the artist. Blauvelt specialized in small genre paintings, frequently of single figures.Showing a young boy standing in front of an open stove, this painting can be read as a more innocent pendent to WAM 37.1950, which shows an elderly carter warming up by drinking what is presumably an alcoholic beverage.
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Document identity
localId
3107
label
Cold Fingers
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obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
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2
Source metadata
id
3107
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Cold Fingers
description
Blauvelt studied with Charles Loring Elliott and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. He pursued a career as a genre and portrait painter, before settling in Annapolis, Maryland where he taught draftsmanship at the Naval Academy. Blauvelt was among the artists whom William T. Walters encountered during his forays in the New York art market just prior to the Civil War, acquiring 5 works by the artist. Blauvelt specialized in small genre paintings, frequently of single figures.Showing a young boy standing in front of an open stove, this painting can be read as a more innocent pendent to WAM 37.1950, which shows an elderly carter warming up by drinking what is presumably an alcoholic beverage.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931 [1].[1] from the Walters residence of 5 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore
date
ca. 1865
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
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2
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2
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
19.2
height
14.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 7 9/16 x W: 5 9/16 in. (19.2 x 14.2 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Lower right: Blauvelt
med
oil on paper
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2311
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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d81e4c9db8d085e2
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no
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no