The Old Violin
John Frederick Peto
c. 1890
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 77.2 × 58.1 cm (30 3/8 × 22 7/8 in.) framed: 97.47 × 78.11 × 5.72 cm (38 3/8 × 30 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
Accession Number
1974.19.1
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...