Mediterranean Seacoast, 1859

Provenance

Private collection, United Kingdom

Sale, Chiswick Auctions, London, United Kingdom, April 24, 2025, lot 56, from above (as View of Sicily)

Private collection, New York, New York

Related Works

The Coast of Genoa, 1854, oil on canvas, 48 ¼ x 72 ½ inches; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Morning on the Coast of Sicily, 1855, oil on panel, 5 ½ x 9 ¼ inches, signed lower right: J.F. Cropsey 1855; Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.

Note

Cropsey traveled throughout Europe in the 1840s and 1850s, including a pivotal trip to Italy in 1847, during which he worked in Thomas Cole’s studio in Rome. His two years there were especially productive—for the rest of his career, Cropsey would create oil paintings of Italian land and seascapes based on the many sketches and studies he made during that time.[1]

[1] Jasper Francis Cropsey, Kenneth W. Maddox, and Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné: Works in Oil Volume I, ed. Anthony M. Speiser (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2013), xii.