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GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894)

Lot 417
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 417 | GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894)
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GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894)
Near Irvington, N.Y.
signed and dated 'G. Inness 1877' (lower right)—inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16 ¼ x 24 ¼ in. (41.3 x 61.6 cm.)
Painted in 1877.




Provenance

The artist.
Robert C. Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from the above.
Edward Drummond Libbey, Toledo, Ohio, circa 1900.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1926.



Literature

"Fine Arts; In the Studios," New York Herald, September 16, 1877, p. 8.
"The Fine Arts; An Inness Exhibition at Vose's Gallery," Boston Evening Transcript, December 8, 1899, p. 10 (as Goose Girl).
"Inness," Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs, vol. IX, no. 102, 1908, pp. 251, 227, pl. 4, illustrated (as The Goose Girl).
Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 82, June 1938, n.p., illustrated.
L. Ireland, The Works of George Inness, Austin, Texas, 1965, p. 204, no. 823, illustrated (as The Goose Girl).
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 150, 65, pl. 66, illustrated.
M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, pp. 250, 258, 343, 346, 513, 534-35, 536, no. 623, fig. 210, pl. 126, illustrated.



Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Robert C. Vose Galleries, Modern Paintings: Early English Barbizon and American, circa 1899.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas, University Art Museum, The Paintings of George Inness (1844-1894), 1965-1966, p. 26, no. 68.
Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, September 12, 2004-January 2, 2005.
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