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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Important American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 21 | $****** - ****** | Winter in Switzerland |
paintings
38.1 x 61.6 cm (15 x 24.25 in)
oil on canvas tacked over panel
signed and dated 'J.F. Cropsey/1860' (lower right)--inscribed with title (on the reverse prior to lining)
The artist. [With]Louis R. Menger, New York, 1860.
Private collection, by 1986.
Christie's, New York, 5 December 1986, lot 23.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Christie's, New York, 23 September 1992, lot 18. Mr. Robert C. Slack, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992.
Sale: Red Baron Antiques, Atlanta, Georgia, Estate of Robert C. Slack, 15-17 March 2002. Neil Morris, New York, 2002. [With]Questroyal Fine Art, New York, by 2006.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.
W.T. Walters, letter to J.F. Cropsey, Baltimore, Maryland, April 20, 1860. J.F. Cropsey, letter to S.P. Avery, London, England, June 5, 1860. W.T. Walters, letter to J.F. Cropsey, Baltimore, Maryland, June 26, 1860. "Art Items," New York Daily Tribune, June 27, 1860, p. 7. J.F. Cropsey, letter to W.T. Walters, July 27, 1860. "Sketchings: Domestic Art Group," The Crayon, July 7, 1860. "The Seasons," Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, July 26, 1860, p. 2. "Art Gossip," The Cosmopolitan Art Journal, September 4, 1860. W.S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1972, pp. ix, 149-52, 408-09, fig. 113, illustrated (as Winter: Switzerland). M.Y. Hutson, George Henry Durrie (1820-1863) American Winter Landscapist: Renowned through Currier and Ives, exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara, California, 1977, p. 82 (as Simplon Pass, Switzerland). W.R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters, The Reticent Collectors, Baltimore, Maryland, 1999, pp. 16-17. A.J. Carvel, "Winter, 1860," Important American Paintings, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2006, n.p., pl. 20, illustrated (as Winter). A.J. Carvel, "Important American Paintings," Antiques and The Arts Weekly, October 13, 2006, p. 30, illustrated (as Winter).
