Warwick Castle, England
1857
Artist, American, 1823 - 1900
Jasper Francis Cropsey
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hirschl, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
overall: 81.1 x 132.3 cm (31 15/16 x 52 1/16 in.)
framed: 109.2 x 160.7 x 10.2 cm (43 x 63 1/4 x 4 in.) -
Accession Number
1991.142.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Commissioned by Cyrus W. Field [1819-1892], New York; his daughter, Mrs. William Francis Judson; her son, Cyrus Field Judson; his daughter, Mrs. Frank McCoy, Washington; (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York), from 1977; sold 1982 to private collection, possibly Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hirschl, West Stockbridge, Massachusetts; gift 1991 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1857
Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1857, no. 191.
1979
Recent Acquisitions of American Art 1769-1938, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1979, no. 22, color repro.
1984
The Art of Collecting, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1984, no. 13, repro.
1988
Adventure and Inspiration: American Artists in Other Lands, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1988, no. 25, color repro.
1994
Jasper Francis Cropsey's 'The Spirit of War' and 'The Spirit of Peace', National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1994-1995, brochure, no. 9, repro.
Bibliography
1857
Harper's Weekly (6 June 1857): 355.
The Crayon (July 1857): 221.
1867
Tuckerman 1867, 536.
1970
Talbot, William S. Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900. Exh. cat. National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1970: 31.
1972
Talbot, William S. "Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1972.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 114-118, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: J.F. Cropsey / .1857.
Wikidata ID
Q20188393