Egyptian Revival Triptych

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Medium

Oil on canvas, ebony stained pine, gold leaf, velvet

Dimensions

31 3/8 x 40 in. (79.7 x 55.2 cm)

Classification

Painting

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Noah L. Butkin, 1978

Accession Number

1978.502

Tags

Columns

About the Artist

Samuel Colman · 18321920

Colman grew up in New York, where his father ran a successful publishing business. The family bookstore on Broadway, was a popular meeting place for artists and there Colman met Hudson River School painters. American interior designer, New York, N.Y.; associated with L.C. Tiffany. Comment on works: landscape

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