The Blue Envelope
John Frederick Peto
c. 1890s
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
overall: 10.8 x 16.5 cm (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.) framed: 20 x 26 x 1.6 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/4 x 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1999.79.28
About the Artist
John Frederick Peto · 1854–1907
John Frederick Peto, born on May 21, 1854, in Philadelphia to picture-frame gilder Thomas Hope Peto and Catherine Marion Ham, grew up as the eldest of five children, primarily raised by his maternal grandparents and aunts. Largely self-taught, he briefly studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1877, where he first exhibited and befriended fellow trompe-l'œil artist William M. Harne...