The Enchanted Castle at Dusk, c. 1868

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache with touches of gold on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 34.9 x 26.7 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Donald Stone

Catalogue Raisonné

Lister 1988, no. 649

Accession Number

2022.40.12

Artists / Makers

Samuel Palmer (artist) British, 1805 - 1881

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in image: traces of inscription, now cut off; by later hand, right verso in graphite: French/22 x 18

Provenance

Esmond Morse [1885 - 1970] (sale, Christie's London, 5 March 1974, no. 179). (Sotheby's London, 19 November 1981, no. 67). Private collection, UK. (Agnew's, London, stock no. CM2905); Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Christie's
Morse, Esmond
Sotheby's, London
Stone, Donald

Exhibition History

2006: The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

2023: Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1985: Lister, Raymond. The Paintings of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge University Press, 1985: no. 66.

1988: Lister, Raymond. Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988: no. 649 (illustrated)