Sunset Glow, Roman Campagna

Provenance

American Express Collection, New York, New York

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York

Private collection, acquired from above, 2005 

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, January 20, 2024, lot19, from above

Exhibited

Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine, M.H. de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, June 20–September 20, 1992; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, January 20–April 18, 1993

A Focused Collection: The Hudson River School, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, April 21–July 29, 2007; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, August 17–October 19, 2007

Literature

Marc Simpson, Andrea Henderson, Sally Mills, Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine (San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992), 38, 113, pl. 39.

A Focused Collection: The Hudson River School (Ithica, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2007), 4, 22, 23, no. 8.

Related Works

Castle at Ostia, Lazio, Italy, 1871, oil on canvas, 14¼ x 25¼ inches; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts

Castle of Ostia seen from the pine forest of Castel Fusano, 1881, oil on canvas, 25½ x 71 inches; New-York Historical Society, New York

Note: The Roman Compagna is a lowland plain surrounding Rome in central Italy which became a popular destination for many artists of the 18^th and 19^th centuries for its expansive landscapes. Historian Andrea Henderson describes William Stanley Haseltine’s depictions of the region as “the most emotionally expressive of his European landscapes.”_[1]

_[1] Andrea Henderson, “Haseltine in Rome,” in Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine (San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992), 38.