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Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Curtis with Still Life
Henry Ossawa Tanner (born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937)
n.d.
- Medium
- oil on plywood
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 26 5/8 x 28 7/8 in. (67.6 x 73.3cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Atherton Curtis was a wealthy American living in France who made his fortune in medicine patents. The couple, who supported many artists, met Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1897 and became ardent supporters of his art. Tanner later used the composition of this portrait in a painting of Christ sitting down to dinner with Lazarus and his sister.
