Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904)
Four Roses in a Glass, c. 1883–1900
Oil on canvas, 22 x 14 in.
Signed lower right: M J Heade
Provenance: private collection, Pennsylvania; [Taggart, Jorgensen, Putnam Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; Christie’s, New York, May 31, 1985, sale no. 5906, lot# 71; private collection
Literature: Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 331 (illustrated), cat. no. 526.