A Path in the Mountains

Provenance

Mrs. Robert Wilkinson Jr. (1876–1949), daughter-in-law of the artist’s sister

Private collection, Larchmont, New York, gift from above, ca. 1930s

Private collection, Cabot, Vermont, by descent from above, by 2016

[With] Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, New York

Sale, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, April 29, 2021, lot 77, from above

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above

Charles Elchoueri, Brooklyn, New York

Related Work 

Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills, ca. 1861, oil on canvas, 6¾ x 9½ inches; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Note: According to scholar Kevin Avery, the upper left corner of the composition may depict an overlook of North Mountain in the Catskills. The related work offers a comparable style of impasto paint application, contours of the foliage, and rapid energy of execution. He suggests that the handling of the paint and presumed subject may date the present work to the early 1860s.