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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 21, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 46 | $****** - ****** | RUINS AT BAALBEK |
paintings
55.2 x 91.8 cm (21.73 x 36.14 in)
oil on canvas
signed F, CHURCH and dated 1868 (lower right)
Edward F. de Lancey, New York, 1868 (commissioned from the artist)
Private collection
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1966
Private collection (probably acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 19, 1972, lot 7)
Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner, by 1980
University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art, January-March 1981, no. 10, pp. 54, 122, illustrated pp. 24, 55
Annville, Pennsylvania, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Passages: Images of Transition in 19th-Century American Landscape Painting, August-October 1995
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; New York, The National Academy, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, August 1997-September 1999, p. 46, illustrated p. 47
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art; Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, In Search of the Promised Land: Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church, April 2000-March 2001, no. 52, pp. 90, 97, 193, illustrated pl. 52, p. 170
Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, All That Is Glorious Around Us, October-December 2002
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; New Paltz, New York, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum; Winchester, Virginia, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley; Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading Public Museum; Austin, Texas, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, August 2005-May 2012, pp. 22, 156, illustrated p. 23
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Reynolda House Museum of American Art; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Frederic Edwin Church: A Painter's Pilgrimage, October 2017-August 2018, no. 59, pp. 86, 118, 218, illustrated p. 182
Edward F. de Lancey to Frederic Edwin Church, Beirut, April 27, 1868 (David C. Huntington Archives, Olana)
Edward F. de Lancey to Frederic Edwin Church, Paris, July 13, 1868 (David C. Huntington Archives, Olana)
Frederic Edwin Church to William H. Osborn, Berchtesgaden, Germany, July 29, 1868 (David C. Huntington Archives, Olana)
Sanford Robinson Gifford to Elihu Gifford, Rome, October 19, 1868 (transcript of a handwritten copy by David Huntington, Olana State Historic Site)
Frederic Edwin Church to William H. Osborn, Rome, November 4, 1868 (David C. Huntington Archives, Olana)
Frederic Edwin Church to William H. Osborn, Rome, November 16, 1868 (David C. Huntington Archives, Olana)
Frederic Edwin Church to Martin Johnson Heade, Rome, November 16, 1868 (Archives of American Art)
Frederic Edwin Church to Edward de Lancey, Hudson, New York, November 23, 1868 (Geneva, New York, Historical Society; transcript, David C. Huntington Archives, Olana)
Edward F. de Lancey to Frederic Edwin Church, New York, December 27, 1868 (David C. Huntington Archives, Olana)
"Fine Arts. Our Artists Abroad," New York Evening Post, December 31, 1868, p. 2
David C. Huntington, Frederic Edwin Church, 1826-1900: Painter of the Adamic New World Myth, Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1960, p. 183
John Davis, The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture, Princeton, New Jersey, 1996, pp. 176-77, illustrated p. 178
John Paul Driscoll, All That Is Glorious Around Us, Ithaca, New York, 1997, pp. 46-47
Gerald L. Carr, “Frederic Edwin Church and Italy,” The Italian Presence in American Art, 1860-1920, New York, 1992, pp. 27-28
Gerald L. Carr, Frederic Edwin Church: Catalogue Raisonné of Works of Art at Olana State Historic Site, vol. 1, Cambridge, England and New York, 1994, pp. 365, 366
Geoff Gehman, "Beautiful Views of Beautiful Beliefs: Romanticized Images of Nature and Life Reflected in Hudson River School Paintings," The Morning Call, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 13, 2002, n.p.
Edward J. Sozanski, "Art: 'American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting' on display at Reading Public Museum," The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 2011, n.p.
signed F.E. CHURCH and dated 1868 (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 3/4 by 36 1/8 inches
(55.2 by 91.8 cm)
