chansonetta-emmons-1857-1937-the-old-table-chair
Lot 375
Chansonetta Emmons (1857-1937), The Old Table Chair
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, presented in a gilt frame.

SS 13.5 x 14.25 in.; DOA 19.5 x 20.25 in.

Estate of the Late Jean Curtin-Stults of Georgetown, Maine, a prominent folk art and Americana collector.

This painting is after a photographs by Emmons of Joann G. True (1823-1901) of New Portland, Maine. In addition to this painting, the image exists as a glass plate negative, a hand-colored glass lantern slide, a photo print (published in her book "The Old Table Chair") and also as an oil painting currently in the Maine State Museum collection.

Craquelure; several patches on the verso.

$800 - 1,200