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Autumn Landscape with Cattle, 1879
23⅛ x 40¼ inches
Signed and dated lower right: J. F. Cropsey / 1879
Provenance
The artist
Private collection, Massachusetts
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1974–76 (as Fiery Autumn Landscape)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, museum purchase
Sale, Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, September 11, 2021, lot 974, from above to benefit future acquisitions
Exhibited
American Embassy in Berne, Switzerland, through the Art in Embassies Program, Department of State, for Ambassador and Mrs. Donald Beyer, May 24, 2010–June 17, 2013
Literature
S. Morton Vose II, “The Painted Landscape” in Wayne Hanley, ed., The American Years: Produced for Man & Nature, The Yearbook of the Massachusetts Audubon Society (Lincoln, MA: The Nimrod Press, 1976), n. p. (as Fiery Autumn Landscape).
Amy Ellis, “Autumn on the Susquehanna,” in Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum, vol. 1 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), 281.
Anthony M. Speiser, ed., Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné, Works in Oil, vol. 2, 1864–1884 (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2016), 255, 264–265, 272, 274, no. 1564.
Related Work
Autumn on the Susquehanna, 1878, oil on canvas, 23⅛ x 40⅛ inches, signed and dated lower right: J. F. Cropsey / 1878; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Note
This painting may depict the Susquehanna River. Anthony Speiser posits that the present work could be the same picture as On the Susquehanna (NCF-1856) or Susquehanna River (NCF-1927).
