Christ on the Road to Emmaus
c. 1725/1730
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 64.2 x 77.1 cm (25 1/4 x 30 3/8 in.)
framed: 75.5 x 88.9 x 4.4 cm (29 3/4 x 35 x 1 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1966.13.6
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.
Associated Names
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