Landscape with Sheep, ca. 1850

Provenance

David Kimberly, Brooklyn Heights, New York
Annie Kimberly, by descent from above
George Maney Kimberly, by descent from above
Florence Kimberly Turner, by descent from above, by 1971
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Beach, Virginia, by 1986
[With] Vose Galleries, LLC, Brookline, Massachusetts
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, 2016
Private collection, Ohio, from above, 2017

Exhibited

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, A. B. Durand, 1796–1886, October 24–November 28, 1971, no. 61.
On extended loan at the Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (now the Fralin Museum of Art), 1986.

Literature

David B. Lawall, A. B. Durand, 1796–1886, exh. cat (Montclair Art Museum, 1971), 61, no. 61.
David B. Lawall, Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Painters (Garland Publishing, 1978), 83, cat. 144, fig. 73, ill.

Related Works

Landscape—Scene from “Thanatopsis”, 1850, oil on canvas, 39½ x 61 inches; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Landscape, Composition, Afternoon, 1847, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches; Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts.

Note

Dr. David B. Lawall has noted that “the distant mountain, valley, and winding river are closely related to the left distance of Landscape—Scene from ‘Thanatopsis”’ in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.