LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

12.76 in. (32.40 cm.) (height) by 25.75 in. (65.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed G. Inness, l.r.

Literature:

Royal Cortissoz, "The Late George Inness and American Landscape", New York Daily Tribune, January 21, 1917; Royal Cortissoz, "Field of Art", Scribner's Magazine 77, no. 4, April, 1925; LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness, An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, Austin Texas, 1965, no. 648, p.159, illustrated; Timken Art Gallery: European and American Works of Art in the Putnam Foundation Collection, San Diego, California, 1996, p. 190, illustrated p. 191 (as Ariccia); Michael Quick, George Inness:A Catalogue Raisonné, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, vol. I, no. 414, pp. 392-393, illustrated

Provenance:

Mrs. Helen Inness Hartley, New York (sold: American Art Association, [Hartley Sale], New York, March 24, 1927, no. 58 (as The Roman Campagna); Thomas Cochran, New York, 1927; Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1933 (probably); R.I. Skofield, New York, 1933; Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1933 (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, February 1, 1940, no. 27, illustrated as The Roman Campagna); Louis van Vorhees Keeler, Montclair, New Jersey (acquired at the above auction); Harry H. Kuck, Jr., Jupiter, Florida, 1978 (by descent in the family); By descent in the family to the present owner, 1991