Details
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)
Sunset on Greenwood Lake
signed and dated 'J.F. Cropsey 1877' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 ½ x 24 ½ in. (36.8 x 62.2 cm.)
Painted in 1877.
Provenance
(Probably) Parke-Bernet, New York, 15-17 December 1938, lot 67.
John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1944.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., acquired from the above, 1944.
John Jacob Astor III, New York, acquired from the above, 1944.
Wildenstein & Co., New York, and Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1986.
Altman/Burke Fine Art, Inc., New York, by 1989.
Edward Wilson, Fund for Fine Arts, Inc., Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, 1998.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999.
Literature
W.S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900, PhD dissertation, New York University, 1972, pp. 193, 461, no. 202, illustrated (as Sunset on Lake George).
Exhibited
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900, July 8, 1970-January 3, 1971, p. 103, no. 68 (as Sunset, Lake George).
New York, Altman/Burke Fine Art, Inc., The American Landscape: Paintings of the Hudson River School and Related Works, November 30, 1989-January 16, 1990, pp. 38-39, cover illustration (as Sunset, Lake George).
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