At the Justice of the Peace

Inscriptions

Signed: Pieter Verhaert, 1878

Publications

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 156, no. 640. Art Institute of Chicago, Report for the Year 1932 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 64.

Quick Overview

Artist: Pieter Verhaert (Belgian, 1852–1908)
Date: 1878
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28.3 × 35.1 cm (11 1/8 × 13 3/16 in.); Framed: 40.7 × 46.4 × 3.9 cm (16 × 18 1/4 × 1 1/2 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: nineteenth century
Place: Belgium
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: J. C. Black Collection
Accession no.: 1921.121

Provenance

Presumably John C[larke] Black (died 1917), Chicago; by descent to his widow, Eleanor Clarke Black (died 1920), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1921.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.