TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
Jacob D. Blondell
(American, 1817 - 1877)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 20 × 16 in.
Framed: 25 5/8 × 21 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.
SignedSigned at detached strip of canvas: "J. D. Blondell / by J. D. B."
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, May 7, 1855
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number104-P
Label TextThe portrait has been reduced to its present size, probably from the mandatory ANA diploma portrait dimensions of thirty by twenty-five inches. The strip of canvas bearing the inscription, which is of a character to suggest it was in the hand of Blondell, himself, or a close contemporary, was salvaged and attached to the masonite mounting board; the inscription was on the reverse side of the original canvas.
