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Egyptian Revival Triptych

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Egyptian Revival Triptych

1885 (?)

Medium

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

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Dimensions

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

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Noah L. Butkin, 1978

Department

The American Wing

Culture

American

About Samuel Colman

1832–1920 • United States

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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