Christ on the Road to Emmaus

c. 1725/1730

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Recorded as from New York State. A Dutch family in the vicinity of Kingston, New York. (Thurston Thacher, Hyde Park, New York), by whom sold in 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] gift to NGA, 1966.
[1] This is taken from the Garbisch records. Ruth Piwonka (see below), however, in a letter of 23 April 1977, in NGA curatorial files, indicates that the painting is likely to have the same Sanders/Wilson provenance as Christ and the Woman of Samaria (1953.5.91) and Young Man on a Terrace (1953.5.92), both by unknown painters, as well as Lady Undressing for a Bath (1956.13.11), attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck.

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Exhibition History

1954

  • American Primitive Painting, traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Inst. for the U.S. Information Service, Washington, 1954-1955, no. 3. First venue: Kunstmusuem, Lucerne, Switzerland.

1962

  • Exhibiton of Early American Art, Academy of the Arts, Talbot County Historical Society, Easton, Maryland, 1962, no. 19.

1968

  • The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, for de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, 1968.

1979

  • A Remnant in the Wilderness. New York Dutch Scripture History Paintings of the Early Eighteenth Century, The Albany Institute of History and Art, traveling exh., 4 venues, 1979-1980, no. 6, 27. (NGA loans shown only in Utica and New York City, 1980)

Bibliography

1953

  • Wheeler, Robert G. "Hudson Valley Religious Paintings." Antiques 63 (April 1953): 346-348, 350.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 132, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 270, repro.

1992

  • Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 453-454, color repro. 453.

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 396, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20177807

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