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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 23, 2025 | Christie's | New York | 19th Century American and Western Art | 360 | $****** - ****** | Riva, Lago di Garda | |||
Dec 3, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 13 | $****** - ****** | Riva - Lago di Garda |
paintings
27.3 x 42.5 cm (10.75 x 16.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated "SR Gifford 1863" (lower left)-signed again (lower right)
D. H. McAlpin, New York.
Hillary Smart, Boston, Massachusetts.
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., Los Angeles, California, acquired from the above, 1976.
Sotheby"s, New York, 3 December 2008, lot 13, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Memorial Collection of the Works of the Late Sanford R. Gifford , October 1880-March 1881, p. 6, no. 44 (as Lago Garda, Italy ).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., October 4, 1981-September 26, 1982, pp. 29, 132, fig. 17, illustrated.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Fine Art; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760-1914 , September 16, 1992-August 8, 1993, p. 299, no. 63, illustrated.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford , October 8, 2003-June 27, 2004, pp. 156-57, no. 33, illustrated (as Lago di Garda, Italy ).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A. , New York, 1881, p. 28, no. 342 (as Lago di Garda, Italy ).
I. Weiss, Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) , New York, 1977, p. xxxiin36.
I. Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford Robinson Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, pp. 239-40, illustrated.
SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)
Riva, Lago di Garda
signed and dated "SR Gifford 1863" (lower left)-signed again (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 ¾ x 16 ¾ in. (27.3 x 42.5 cm.)
Painted in 1863.
