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Item Information     Who else has...     Peale, Charles Wilson,     Portrait male -- Peale, Titian Ramsay     Portrait male -- Peale, Raphael     Portrait group -- Family     Architecture interior -- Studio     Architecture -- Detail     Occupation -- Art     Painting     Exhibition Catalog

The Staircase, (painting).   Artist:  Peale, Charles Wilson, artist. Title:  The Staircase, (painting). Medium:  Canvas. Dimensions:  Life size. Object Type:  Painting Exhibition Catalog Entry Note:  Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 100 A famous picture by C.W. PEALE, representing his two sons, Titian and Raphael, life size. All who have visited PEALE'S MUSEUM admire this remarkable painting; its perfect truth to nature is such, that many people have been deceived into the belief that it was a real staircase, with persons ascending it. It was not unusual for persons to approach it, and place a foot on the first step, which was a real one, and dogs have been known to run against it, in the attempt to ascend. Mr. PEALE had but little imagination as a painter, but was remarkable for the faculty of depicting visible objects faithfully on canvass, and hence the fidelity of his portraits, and pictures of still life. He was so well aware of the pecularity of his talent in this way, that he was always careful to have before him the exact representation of the picture he intended to paint; and in this instance he had an actual staircase constructed, and placed his two sons upon it, in the positions in which they appear on the canvass. [P. 15.] Subject:  Portrait male -- Peale, Titian Ramsay Portrait male -- Peale, Raphael Portrait group -- Family -- Siblings Architecture interior -- Studio Architecture -- Detail -- Stairs Occupation -- Art -- Painter Exhibition:  Independence Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1852 Provenance:  At time of exhibition in the collection of National Portrait and Historical Gallery, Remarks:  [Catalogue is preceded by an essay on the collection of portraits organized by Charles Willson Peale, the founding of his museum, a constitution, and a listing of Officers for 1851.] Exhibition catalog is available at New-york Historical Society, New York, N.y. Exhibition catalog has been microfilmed by the Archives of American Art, reel no. NHS2: 490-505. Exhibition type: General-American/Museum Collection Catalog Title:  Catalogue of the National Portrait and Historical Gallery, Illustrative of American History. Formerly belonging to Peale's Museum, Philadelphia, now exhibiting at Independence Hall, on Fourth Street, between Walnut and Vine, Cincinnati. Incorporated by Act of General Assembly. Cincinnati: Gazette Company Print. 1852. Note:  The Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index is a historical record of artworks exhibited in the United States and Canada up through the Centennial year of 1876. Information is recorded as given in each exhibition catalog. Repository:  Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  AECI 02210100 Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control No.   Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index 02210100 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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