LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (height) by 67.52 in. (171.50 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed E Leutze and inscribed Dusdf p.p.c. (lower right)
Exhibited:
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, . Bicentennial Exhibition, Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom Is the Only King , 1976. New York, IBM Gallery of Science; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery; Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art; Miami, Florida, Center for Fine Art, . Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 , September 1993-November 1994, no. 29, pp. 209, 213, illustrated pl. 138, p. 212. Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi Museum of Art; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum; Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art,. The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality , February-December 2000, p. 127, no. 89, illustrated p. 126. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012-18 (on loan
Literature:
Catalogue of Modern Paintings in the Collection of H.D. Newcomb Esq. , Louisville, Kentucky, 1867, pp. 1, 4. Moritz Blanckarts, . Düsselforfer Künstler; Nekrologie . aus den letzten zehn Jahren , Stuttgart, Germany, 1877, n.p. Edward Strahan, . The Art Treasures of America , vol. III, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1879, p. 63. Friedrich von Boetticher, . Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts , 2 vols., Leipzig, Germany, 1948, n.p. Barbara S. Groseclose, "Catalog of Known Works," . Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom Is the Only King , Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 106, pp. 98, 99, illustrated p. 98
Provenance:
Horatio Dalton Newcomb, Louisville, Kentucky, by 1867. Horatio Victor Newcomb (his son, by descent). Goupil & Co., New York. Dr. and Mrs. William Edgar Derry, Dover, New Jersey (probably acquired from the above). Gift to the present owner from the above, 1943