LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

12.01 in. (30.50 cm.) (height) by 20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'J.F. Cropsey 1877' (lower right)

Exhibited:

(Probably) New York, Union League Club, March 8, 1877. (Probably) New York, The Century Association, March 18, 1877, no. 35 (as White Mountains).

Literature:

(Probably) 'Union League Club: President Hayes's Course Indorsed, The Cabinet Appointments Approved,' New York Commercial Advertiser, March 9, 1877, p. 3. (Probably) 'Art at the Union League Club,' New York Evening Post, March 9, 1877, p. 2. A.M. Speiser, ed., Jasper Francis Cropsey, Catalogue Raisonné: Works in Oil, 1864-1884, vol. II, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 2016, p. 242, no. 1464.

Provenance:

George Chapellier, New York, by 1965. Maurice J. Cotter, Bayside, New York, 1965. Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1989.