Collection Highlights
Settee
Date:
ca. 1800
Object Number:
INV.14952
Medium:
Maple, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Amerigo Vespucci (ca. 1454-1512)
Object Number:
1939.242
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 21 3/4 in. ( 71.1 x 55.2 cm )
Marks:
inscription: at top: "Americus Vespuccius"
Gallery Label:
This portrait is a copy of an original painted by an unidentified 16th-century artist in the "Gallery of Famous Men" in the Uffizzi, Florence. It shows the navigator and explorer holding a rolled map of the western ocean.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mary Madison McGuire
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
