LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (height) by 72.25 in. (183.52 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'E Leutze/1855.' (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, 168 New Bond Street, and elsewhere, Exhibition of Modern German Pictures, July 1855, no. 94. Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920, March 15-July 7, 1991, no. 2.

Literature:

Art Journal, London, July 1, 1855, p. 217. Klönische Zeitung, August 29, 1855, n.p. New York Evening Post, November 17, 1855, n.p. Beiblatt zur Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, vol. 3, no. 22, August 28, 1868, p. 188. M. Blanckarts, Düsseldorf Künstler; Nekrologie aus den letzten zehn Jahren, Stuttgart, Germany, 1877, p. 25. N. Ponce de León, The Columbus Gallery: The 'Discoverer of the New World' as represented in Portraits, Monuments, Statues, Medals and Paintings, New York, 1893, p. 147, no. 42. F. von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehten Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, Germany, 1948, n.p. B.S. Groseclose, Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom Is the Only King, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1975, p. 87, no. 69. W.E. Truettner, ed., The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1991, pp. 54, 75-76, illustrated.

Provenance:

Charles Gould. Estate of the above. Sale: American Art Associates, 22 October 1932, no. 98. Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 8 June 1939, lot 128. Private collection, New York. Acquired by the present owner, 1988.