instance of: painting / country of origin: United States of America

commissioned by: William Thompson Walters (3) | University of Pennsylvania (1) | William Bingham (1) | Federal Art Project (1) | Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1) | Woodbury Langdon (1) | John Pratt (1) | Charles Lang Freer (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (59) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (32) | Carmen Cervera (29) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (18) | Dallas Museum of Art (16) | Harold E. Simon (9) | John Meyer (8) | Arizona State University Art Museum (7) | Phoenix Art Museum (6) | Oliver B. James (6) | Louis P. Church (6) | Robert Lehman (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | John G. Johnson (4) | Walters Art Museum (3) | Henry Walters (3) | Samuel Colman (3) | Coe Kerr Gallery (3)

movement: Orientalism (54) | Naïve art (39) | Hudson River School (29) | Impressionism (18) | Volcano School (17) | Realism (17) | American Impressionism (14) | Ashcan School (6) | Tonalism (5) | realism (4) | luminism (3) | American realism (3) | Romanticism (2) | pop art (2) | Luminism (2) | neoclassicism (1) | Cubism (1) | German Expressionism (1)

genre: landscape art (1,678) | portrait (1,236) | marine art (204) | religious art (100) | genre art (80) | self-portrait (71) | animal painting (70) | still life (69) | Orientalism (54) | architectural view (40) | floral painting (38) | miniature (30) | history painting (29) | group portrait (24) | nude (17) | battle painting (8) | military art (6) | trompe-l'œil (6)

named after: cathedral (1)

based on: Dance of the Seven Veils (2) | Cinderella (1) | resurrection of Jesus (1) | Macbeth (1) | conversion of Paul the Apostle (1) | Lansdowne Portrait (1) | Rape of Belgium (1) | The Bard (1) | Sita and Sarita (1) | John Jay (1) | The Ray of Light (1) | Cymon and Iphigenia (1)

artist: George Catlin (815) | Mary Vaux Walcott (478) | Albert Bierstadt (414) | Gretchen Andrew (204) | John Singer Sargent (154) | Thomas Eakins (141) | George Inness (141) | D. Howard Hitchcock (139) | Gilbert Stuart (137) | Frederic Edwin Church (131) | Thomas Cole (114) | Martin Johnson Heade (109) | Edward Mitchell Bannister (108) | John Singleton Copley (105) | Winslow Homer (104) | Henry Ossawa Tanner (89) | Thomas Moran (85) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (85)

part of the series: The Course of Empire (5) | Watson and the Shark (3) | The Voyage of Life (3) | Chocolate Grinder (series) (1) | The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 (1) | Naked Dave (1)

depicts: tree (1,280) | man (868) | woman (721) | sky (556) | cloud (538) | mountain (370) | portrait (302) | flower (252) | river (236) | landscape (226) | house (223) | boat (200) | Indigenous peoples of the United States (196) | hill (188) | plant (141) | horse (126) | body of water (111) | coast (103)

material used: oil paint (5,930) | canvas (5,258) | panel (263) | paper (178) | canvas (130) | watercolor paint (108) | cardboard (76) | board (42) | paperboard (37) | ivory (32) | graphite (25) | gouache paint (15) | masonite (15) | wood (12) | brush (7) | fiberboard (7) | wove paper (6) | pencil (5)

collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum (2,634) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1,362) | Museum of Fine Arts (968) | National Gallery of Art (847) | Art Institute of Chicago (207) | private collection (199) | The Phillips Collection (154) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (130) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (116) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (113) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (98) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (84) | Andrew W. Mellon collection (79) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (72) | Brooklyn Museum (72) | Birmingham Museum of Art (64) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (46) | High Museum of Art (45)

location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (2,631) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1,362) | Museum of Fine Arts (967) | National Gallery of Art (845) | Art Institute of Chicago (207) | The Phillips Collection (154) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (129) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (116) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (113) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (83) | M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (75) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (71) | Brooklyn Museum (68) | Birmingham Museum of Art (64) | High Museum of Art (45) | Walters Art Museum (43) | Yale Center for British Art (37) | Yale University Art Gallery (35)

part of: 29 year old woman (59) | Bow New Hampshire (43) | Powerful person (18) | L'Appel du Vide (16) | Perfect female body (15) | Malignant epithelial ovarian cancer (14) | Female conception (13) | What is Ubuntu (13) | Displacement (10) | Four Freedoms (4) | The Peaceable Kingdom (4) | Watson and the Shark (1) | Gretchen Andrew Painting 01 (1)

exhibition history: Joshua Johnson: Freeman and early American portrait painter (22) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (6) | Phoenix Art Museum (3) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (3) | Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (2) | London (1) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Philadelphia (1) | Baltimore (1) | Brown University (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | National Gallery (1) | Walters Art Museum (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Panama–Pacific International Exposition (1)

main subject: George Washington (30) | man (19) | woman (13) | girl (10) | family (8) | child (7) | flight into Egypt (7) | Abraham Lincoln (4) | boy (3) | sibling (3) | crucifixion of Jesus (3) | Holy Family (3) | human (2) | Virgin Mary (2) | summer (2) | mother (2) | transport (2) | John Adams (2)

donated by: Gloria Manney (5) | Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (4) | Charles Lang Freer (3) | anonymous (2) | Carl S. Dentzel (2) | John W. Hanes (2) | Works Progress Administration (1) | John D. Rockefeller III (1) | Robert Lehman (1) | Charles Allen Munn (1) | Henry Ward Ranger (1) | Pi Beta Phi (1) | American Society of Miniature Painters (1) | J.E.R. Chilton (1) | Robert R. Rosenbaum (1) | Carolann Smurthwaite (1) | James Beattie (1) | Jesse Albert Locke (1)

location of final assembly: New York City (3) | Paris (3) | New York (3) | Baltimore (3) | England (2) | California (2) | Brooklyn (2) | Italy (1) | Netherlands (1) | London (1) | Boston (1) | France (1) | Rome (1) | Venice (1) | Maine (1) | Ecuador (1) | Massachusetts (1) | Arizona (1)

published in: Joshua Johnson: Freeman and early American portrait painter (22) | American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (12) | American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (3) | American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815 (2) | Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Collier's (1) | Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (1) | European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (1) | European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings (1) | Masterpieces of American Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 (1) | American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection (1) | A Covenant of Seasons (1) | Charles Warren Eaton (1857-1937): An American Tonalist Rediscovered : November 4-December 31, 2004 (1) | Masterpieces: A Celebration of Food and Art in Virginia (1) | Early Art and Artists in West Virginia: An Introduction and Biographical Directory (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (2) | ink wash painting (1) | wash (1)