Autumn Afternoon on Lake George
1864
Painter, American, 1816 - 1872
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 123.83 × 184.15 cm (48 3/4 × 72 1/2 in.)
framed: 169.55 × 229.87 × 15.24 cm (66 3/4 × 90 1/2 × 6 in.) -
Accession
2014.136.116
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Robert M. Olyphant [1824-1918], New York, by 1867;[1] (his sale, by Robert Somerville at Chickering Hall , New York, 18-19 December 1877, 2nd day, no. 162, as October Afternoon, [Lake George]); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting was lent by Olyphant to the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1867.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1867
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867, as Lake George in Autumn.
1968
John Frederick Kensett, 1816-1872, circulated by American Federation of Arts, New York, 1968, no. 35, repro. (venues: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1970
Loan for use in Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, Washington, April 1970.
1976
The Natural Paradise: Painting in America, 1800-1950, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1 October - 30 November 1976, no. 86.
Bibliography
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 30, 305, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46629260