About This Artwork

George Jakob Hunzinger
American, 1835-1898

Armchair, patented in 1869

Ebonized walnut with gilt decoration
139.7 x 61 x 66 cm (55 x 24 x 26 in.)
Stamped on the rear of the left front leg: "HUNZINGER/N.Y./PAT. MARCH 30/1869
Perry and Gertrude Herst Endowment, 1996.439

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al,. American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 219-20, no. 102.

Ownership History

Provate collection, Toronto; Andrew Van Styn, Fourth Quarter Antiques, Baltimore, by 1996; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.