{"secondaryobjectnumber":null,"periodterms":[],"creditline":"Princeton University, presented by the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Marquand","caption":"John White Alexander (1856–1915; born Allegheny, PA; died New York, NY), Henry G. Marquand, 1896. Oil on canvas; 198 × 107 cm, 214.9 × 123.3 × 10.2 cm (frame). Princeton University, presented by the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Marquand (PP344)","cultureterms":[{"id":2038492,"culture":"American"}],"type":"artobject","dimensionsproposed":"","terms":[{"id":2053145,"term":"oil paintings","aatid":300033799,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2038492,"term":"American","aatid":300107956,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055723,"term":"portraits","aatid":300015637,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2188435,"term":"whiskers (facial hairstyle)","aatid":null,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2125693,"term":"newspapers","aatid":300026656,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2057221,"term":"brown","aatid":300127490,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2061154,"term":"white (color)","aatid":300129784,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2061306,"term":"black","aatid":300130920,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2138922,"term":"pince-nez","aatid":300236788,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2094279,"term":"donors","aatid":300025240,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2094477,"term":"philanthropists","aatid":300025854,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2052977,"term":"paintings","aatid":300033618,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2088270,"term":"men","aatid":300025928,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2171344,"term":"canvas","aatid":null,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2167780,"term":"oil paint","aatid":300015050,"termtype":"Materials"}],"geography":[],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"198.00"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"107.00"},{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"214.94"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"123.30"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"10.15"}],"markings":null,"accessionyear":null,"newaccession":0,"makers":[{"id":43,"displayname":"John White Alexander","displaydate":"1856–1915; born Allegheny, PA; died New York, NY","datebegin":1856,"dateend":1915,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"John White Alexander, 1856–1915; born Allegheny, PA; died New York, NY","displayorder":1}],"datecomputed":1896,"signed":null,"restrictions":null,"classification":"Paintings","packages":[{"packageid":203265,"name":"web_ObjectLessons_Sections_08-18_Gender"},{"packageid":197269,"name":"web_highlights -revised 2021"},{"packageid":190619,"name":"x-COMPLETE-Image_descriptions_HB"},{"packageid":181960,"name":"web_2020_MEB"},{"packageid":205696,"name":"exh_tour_Object_Lessons"},{"packageid":204016,"name":"x-COMPLETE-image_descriptions_American_Art_paintings"}],"catalograisonne":null,"classifications":[{"id":2053145,"classification":"oil paintings"},{"id":2052977,"classification":"paintings"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":3649,"citation":"Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum Saturday, February 4, 2023 - Sunday, January 7, 2024","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2023-02-04","enddate":"2024-01-07","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/3649"}],"cultures":[],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA41397"],"displaytitle":"Henry G. Marquand","displayculture":null,"displaymaker":"John White Alexander, 1856–1915; born Allegheny, PA; died New York, NY","captionhtml":"John White Alexander (1856–1915; born Allegheny, PA; died New York, NY), Henry G. Marquand, 1896. Oil on canvas; 198 × 107 cm, 214.9 × 123.3 × 10.2 cm (frame). Princeton University, presented by the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Marquand (PP344)","displaydate":"1896","medium":"Oil on canvas","media":[{"id":232115,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAM21GA41397","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"}],"displayperiod":null,"extended_content":false,"campuscollections":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)","citation":"Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 239 (illus.)","date":2007,"id":474,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/191864564"},{"boilertext":"Betsy Rosasco, \"The teaching of art and the museum tradition: Joseph Henry to Allan Marquand,\"  in \"An art museum for Princeton: the early years\", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2 (1996): p. 7-52.","citation":"Betsy Rosasco, \"The teaching of art and the museum tradition: Joseph Henry to Allan Marquand,\"  in \"An art museum for Princeton: the early years\", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2 (1996): p. 7-52., p. 27, fig. 14","date":1996,"id":3052,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774779"},{"boilertext":"Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013)","citation":"Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 253","date":2013,"id":1994,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/865020505"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"American Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1850-1900","dateend":1896,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Henry G. Marquand","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"PP344","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Handbook Entry","textentryhtml":"\r\nAmong the most discerning collectors of his time, Henry Marquand amassed a fortune in railroads before serving for many years as a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, becoming one of its greatest patrons. Marquand also was a generous benefactor to Princeton University, as was his son, Allan, the institution’s first professor of art history, whose books formed the nucleus of its Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology. Society portraitist John White Alexander, who himself taught drawing at Princeton during the 1880s, depicted the elder Marquand as a discriminating man of culture, positioned with glasses in hand before a framed object. He holds what were likely intended to be recognized as plans for the Metropolitan’s signature central structure, undertaken during Marquand’s tenure as the museum’s second president. Alexander’s subtly elegant portrayal exemplifies the second stage in his artistic development, when he adopted an especially absorptive canvas and began using thinned pigment to give his work a flat, muted appearance that stands in marked contrast to his earlier bravura style, in which brushwork rather than compositional design served as the primary aesthetic vehicle.

","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"

Among the most discerning collectors of his time, Henry Marquand amassed a fortune in railroads before serving for many years as a trustee of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, becoming one of its greatest patrons. Marquand also was a generous benefactor to Princeton University, as was his son, Allan, the institution’s first professor of art history, whose books formed the nucleus of its Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology. Society portraitist John White Alexander, who taught drawing at Princeton in the 1880s, depicted the elder Marquand as a discriminating man of culture, positioned with glasses in hand before a framed picture. He holds what likely were intended to be recognized as plans for the Metropolitan’s signature central structure, undertaken during Marquand’s tenure as the museum’s second president.

","remarks":"MEB Rotation September 2018"}],"datebegin":1896,"sortnumber":"P 344P","published_date":"2026-02-11 11:28:19.863356","objectid":45424,"dimensions":"198 × 107 cm (77 15/16 × 42 1/8 in.)\r\nframe: 214.9 × 123.3 × 10.2 cm (84 5/8 × 48 9/16 × 4 in.)","on_view":false}