Moses Pond
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, 1939
Accession Number
39.37
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About this artwork
This portrait depicts Moses Pond (1799-1870), a Boston gentleman, rendered with the clarity and directness characteristic of American portraiture in the early nineteenth century. The sitter is shown in three-quarter view against a dark background, wearing the formal attire appropriate to his social station. Healy captures the subject's features with careful attention to physiognomic detail, presenting Pond as a person of dignity and respectability. George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894), only ...