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Black Sawyers Working in front of the Bank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel|Pavel Petrovich Svinin

1811–ca. 1813

Black Sawyers Working in front of the Bank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia by John Lewis Krimmel|Pavel Petrovich Svinin

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on white laid paper

Dimensions

9 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. (23.2 x 17.1 cm)

Classification

Watercolor

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1942

Accession Number

42.95.16

Tags

BuildingsInfantsMenWomenWorking

Art Historical Context

In the early 19th century, buzzed as America's cultural and financial hub, and this delicate watercolor, *Black Sawyers Working in front the Bank of Pennsylvania,* (1811–ca. 1813), captures a of its everyday vitality. Attributed to American genre painter John Lewis Krimmel and artist-diplomat Pavel Petrovichvinin, the small-scale work (9 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.) depicts Black sawyers—skilled laborers cutting and shaping wood—busily at work before the neoclassical grandeur of the Bank of Pennsylvania, one of the nation's first monumental stone buildings designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Krimmel, ren...

About the Artist

John Lewis Krimmel|Pavel Petrovich Svinin (Russian|American) · 1787 |1786 –1839 |1821

1787/88–1839|1786–1821

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