File:AbrahamLincolnOilPainting1869Restored.jpg

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Artist



Alternative names	George Peter Alexander Healy
Description	American painter
Date of birth/death	15 July 1818	24 June 1894
Location of birth/death	Boston	Chicago
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Abraham Lincoln

Date

1869

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

187.3 × 141.3 cm (73.7 × 55.6 in)

Current location

White House Collection

State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C, United States

Notes

Source of Scholar's Notes: Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008:

"[The artist paints the president in a] listening, absorbed pose. ". . . [T]he figure is pulled forward from the murky olive-gray background by the sculptural modeling, the concentration of light upon hands and face, the lack of competing accessories. . . . Healy molds [the chair] to the President's body and turns the gilt wood and red brocade into a perfect foil for the strongly projected figure. . . . "The portrait was painted in Paris and sent to Washington in response to an act of Congress (March 3, 1869) authorizing a Lincoln portrait for the White House."

Source/Photographer

White House Historical Association: http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_about/whitehouse_collection/whitehouse_collection-art-05.html

Licensing

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File usage

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Abraham Lincoln

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Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	96 dpi
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File change date and time	15:20, 17 April 2011
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Date and time of digitizing	13:35, 16 April 2011
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