Thomas Sully
The Passage of the Delaware
1819372.1 x 525.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of the Owners of the old Boston Museum
Literature
Yuriko Jackall et al., America collects eighteenth-century French painting, Washington; London, 2017, p. 136, fig. 7
Provenance
Originally commissioned by the State of North Carolina, but commission rescinded, 1819
sold by the artist to John Doggett, Boston for $500, 1823
sold by John Doggett to Ethan Allen Greenwood for his New England Museum in Boston, 1823
sold by Ethan Allen Greenwood to Moses Kimball for the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts, which opened in 1841(Old Boston Museum, Hall of Curios), 1839
gift of the owners of the Old Boston Museum to the MFA, 1903 (Accession Date: 26 May 1903)