Landscape with Picnickers and Donkeys by a Gate

c. 1830-1880

Joseph Paul

Painter, British, 1804 - 1887

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 123.2 x 99 cm (48 1/2 x 39 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Hon. Mrs. James(?) Byng. (Wallis & Son, London); purchased 1892 by Peter A.B. Widener,[1] Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, as by Crome; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Information from P.A.B. Widener, "The Widener Collection, February 1st, 1908" in the NGA Library.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1915

  • Roberts, William. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia, 1915: unpaginated, repro., as Harling Gate, Near Norwich by John Crome.

1923

  • Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro., as Harling Gate, Near Norwich by John Crome ("Old Crome").

1931

  • Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 198, repro., as Harling Gate, Near Norwich by John Crome.

1948

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 93, repro., as Harling Gate, Near Norwich by John Crome ("Old Crome").

1960

  • Cooke, Hereward Lester. British Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Eight in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 30, color repro., as Harling Gate, Near Norwich by John Crome.

1963

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 320, repro., as Harling Gate, Near Norwich by John Crome ("Old Crome").

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 35, as Harling Gate, near Norwich, by John Crome.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 28, repro., as Harling Gate, near Norwich, by John Crome.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 88, repro., as Harling Gate, near Norwich.

1978

  • Goldberg, Norman L. John Crome the Elder. 2 vols. Oxford, 1978: 1:94-95, 213; 2:pls. 85-86.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 108, repro., as Harling Gate, near Norwich by Follower of John Crome.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 180-183, repro. 181.

Wikidata ID

Q20185695

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