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JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY (1823-1900)

Lot 355
23.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 355 | JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY (1823-1900)
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY (1823-1900)
Torre dei Schiavi
signed, inscribed and dated 'Rome/JF Cropsey/1847' (lower center)
oil on canvas
11 x 16 ¼ in. (27.9 x 41.3 cm.)
Painted in 1847.




Provenance

John Ridner.
American Art-Union, New York, 1848.
Joseph Dart, Jr., Buffalo, New York, acquired from the above, 1848.
Mrs. Joseph Dart, Buffalo, New York, by 1864.
Private collection, Buffalo, New York, 1880s.
Private collection, Buffalo, New York, by descent from the above.
Estate of the above.
Christie's, New York, 4 March 2010, lot 149, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

John M. Falconer, Letter to Jasper F. Cropsey, New York, September 4, 1848.
John M. Falconer, Letter to Jasper F. Cropsey, New York, October 29, 1848.
"Distribution," Transactions of the American Art-Union for the Year 1848, New York, 1849, p. 61, no. 192 (as Torre di [sic] Schiavi).
"The Fine Arts: The American Art Union, Third Notice," Home Journal, November 25, 1848, n.p.
W.S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey: 1823-1900, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1977, pp. 63, 311.
J.L. Yarnall, W.H. Gerdts, The National Museum of American Art's Index to American Art Exhibition Catalogues from the Beginning through the 1876 Centennial Year, vol. 1, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 884, 889, nos. 21415, 21585.
C.C. Eldridge, "Torre dei Schiavi: Monument and Metaphor," Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Fall 1987, pp. 25-26.
A.M. Speiser, ed., Jasper Francis Cropsey, Catalogue Raisonné: Works in Oil, Volume One 1842-1863, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 2013, pp. 54-55, no. 107, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, American Art-Union, 1848, no. 192 (as Torre di [sic] Schiavi).
Buffalo, New York, Young Men's Association, First Annual Exhibition of the Young Men's Association, 1861, no. 186 (as Torre de [sic] Schiavi).
Buffalo, New York, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1864, no. 100 (as Campagna, Near Rome).
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