(Louisiana,ÿ1793-1849)The Transfiguration, 1829, after the work by Raphael held by the Musei Vaticani, Rome, not apparently signed, oil on canvas, 57-5/8 x 38-5/8 in.; fine gilt wood and composition frame, 70 x 51 in.Exhibition:ÿCharleston, S.C., Thayer's Room, 79 Broad St., 1836;ÿApollo Association, Oct. 1838, No. 238;ÿPennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: 1852, No. 307, 1853, No.345, 1854, No.56; Boston Athenaeum, 1854; Provenance: James Robb (per Boston Athenaeum Catalogue, 1854); The Estate of William N. Banks, Jr., Newnan, Georgia

lined with wax and linen and restretched on original stretcher, vertical repaired tear at left with associated retouch, crackle, newly cleaned and varnished, lacking central stretcher bar; frame with cracks and losses to composition upper right and in egg and dart bandÿ