Object Record
Metadata
Object Name |
Painting |
Title |
Dabney H. Maury |
Catalog Number |
0985.13.01263 |
Date |
2/2/1852 |
Description |
Oil on canvas portrait painting of a male subject, shown from the waist up, in a frontal pose. The subject is wearing a Confederate uniform with gauntlets. He has his hands in his lap, holding a sword. In red paint in lower right corner: "E. Leutze / 2.2/52". |
Material |
paint (oil); textile (canvas); wood |
Dimensions |
H-39 W-34 inches |
Owner Regiment |
Adjutant, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston Adjutant, Maj. Gen. Theophilus Holmes Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn Army of the West Commander, Dept. of East Tennessee Commander, District of the Gulf; Commander (temporary), Dept. of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana |
Made |
Emanuel Leutze |
Provenance |
The portrait is of Maj. Gen. Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900). The artist, Emanuel Leutze, was an art instructor at West Point and painted this portrait from life while Maury was also an instructor at West Point, in 1852. Maury commissioned the painting as a wedding gift for his wife. At some point, Maury hired another painter to retouch the portrait, adding his Confederate gray uniform over the blue of his Union one from the time at West Point; the uniform has a "blue-gray" effect to it. His daughter-in-law referred to the repainting as an effort on the subject's part to remain "unreconstructed." |
People |
Maury, Dabney Herndon |
Subjects |
weddings marriage |