Lot Essay
This painting was inscribed Thomas Sully, Pinxt, Purchased by A. Petty in 1865, By J. E. Temple Jany 1876 on the reverse before lining.
Details
THOMAS SULLY* (1783-1872)
Little Red Riding Hood
-- oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (51 x 40.8 cm.)
Little Red Riding Hood
-- oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (51 x 40.8 cm.)
Provenance
A. Petty
J. E. Temple
J. E. Temple
Literature
E. Biddle and M. Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully, Charleston, p. 381, no. 2526
Exhibited
Santa Barbara, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, First Flowers of Our Wilderness, Jan.-Feb. 1976 (this exhibition later travelled to Tuscon, The University of Arizonia, Museum of Art, Feb.-March 1976.)