One of eleven pieces from James Buchanan's French Parisian Pink dinner service. Designed and decorated by Jean-Pierre Feuillet in Paris at his studio on rue de la Paix no. 20. This service bowl has a floral center painted in a naturalistic palette in shades of yellow, green, blue and tan within a gilt cavetto below a wide pink band within a gilt edge.
Nast or Darte Freres factory. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, designer.
Provenance
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
One of eleven pieces from James Buchanan's French Parisian Pink dinner service. Designed and decorated by Jean-Pierre Feuillet in Paris at his studio on rue de la Paix no. 20. This service bowl has a landscape scene with a castle, a waterfall and two people fishing in shades of green, blue and tan within a gilt cavetto below a wide pink band within a gilt edge.
Made by Nast or Darte Freres factory. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, designer.
Provenance
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
Portrait of James Buchanan. Watercolor done by Susan Musser Gibson of Lancaster, 1838, based on the portrait done by Jacob Eichholtz in 1834. From the collection of John and Ann Sanders, 1982. Letter from John Sanders accompanies the photograph.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Reverse of the portrait of James Buchanan. Watercolor done by Susan Musser Gibson of Lancaster, 1838, based on the portrait done by Jacob Eichholtz in 1834. From the collection of John and Ann Sanders, 1982. Letter from John Sanders accompanies the photograph.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Portrait of James Buchanan. Watercolor done Jacob Eichholtz in 1834. Written on back: painted at the age of about 40 years and before his departure as Minister to St. Petersburg, Harriet Lane Johnston Bequest. Stamped on back: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Reprint of daguerrotype of James Buchanan and Harriet Lane with President James K. Polk, circa 1846. James Buchanan is at far left, with Harriet Lane second from left. President Polk is third from right. From the collections of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. File includes an article about the image from unidentified periodical and a letter to George Eastman House from Sally Smith Cahalan requesting to purchase a reprint of the image.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives. From the collections of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Image not to be reproduced. For study purposes only.
