Mount Etna from Catania, 1868

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Sanford Gifford, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts, by descent from above

Private collection, by descent from above

Exhibited

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings in the West and East Galleries, October 1880–March 1881, no. 83 (as Catania, a study)

Marshall Field & Company Picture Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York, New York, An Artist’s Legacy and A Dealer’s Admiration: Paintings by Sanford Robinson Gifford from Important American Collections, October 12–December 14, 2012, no. 32

Literature

Loan Collection of Paintings in the West and East Galleries (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1880), 8, no. 83 (as Catania, a study).

Ila Weiss, “Sanford R. Gifford in Europe: A Sketchbook of 1868,” American Art Journal 9, no. 2 (1977): 97.

Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1987), 118, 269.

Kevin J. Avery and Donald J. Christensen, An Artist’s Legacy and A Dealer’s Admiration: Paintings by Sanford Robinson Gifford from Important American Collections (New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, 2012), 76–77, 124–125, no. 32.

Related Work

Sunset at Catania, Sicily, 10 September 1868, oil on canvas, 7⅝ x 13½ inches; Private collection, as reproduced in Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1987), 270.

Note

This work presents the view from Gifford’s hotel window under a high sun in Catania, Sicily, on September 11, 1868. The previous evening, he painted the mountain at sunset. He never made a final larger painting of this subject.