ID 1360543
Lot 396 | WASHINGTON ALLSTON (1779-1843)
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 10 000
Landscape, Evening
oil on canvas
25 ½ x 34 ½ in. (64.8 x 87.6 cm.)
Painted in 1821.
Provenance
Warren Dutton, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1827.
Mrs. George M. Barnard, Jr., by 1879.
Victor Spark, New York, by 1948.
Acquired by the present owner by 1971.
Literature
W.F. Sweetser, Artist Biographies: Allston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1879, p. 187 (as Landscape).
E.P. Richardson, H.W.L Dana, "Catalogue of the Existing and Recorded Paintings of Washington Allston," in Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, Chicago, Illinois, 1948, p. 208, no. 126, pl. LI, illustrated.
(Probably) C. Woodring, "American Wilderness," in H. De Almeida, ed., Nature, Politics, and the Arts: Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring, Newark, Delaware, 2015, p. 169 (as Classical Landscape).
Exhibited
(Probably) Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Athenaeum, 1827, no. 36.
(Probably) Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Athenaeum, 1831, no. 84.
Boston, Massachusetts, Harding's Gallery, Pictures Painted by Washington Allston, 1839, p. 5, no. 16 (as Landscape).
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of the Works of Washington Allston, 1881, p. 12, no. 208 (as Landscape).
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Romantic Vision in America, October 9-November 28, 1971.
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Allston, 1779-1843, May 11-August 24, 1947, no. 31.
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Views and Visions: American Landscape before 1830, September 21, 1986-March 29, 1987, pp. 71, 230, pl. 77, illustrated (as Landscape, Evening (Classical Landscape)).
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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| Art style: | Classicism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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| Art style: | Classicism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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