William Cullen Bryant, c. 1854

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 61.6 × 51.12 cm (24 1/4 × 20 1/8 in.)

framed: 79.38 × 69.22 × 7.62 cm (31 1/4 × 27 1/4 × 3 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James C. McGuire)

Accession Number

2015.19.120

Artists / Makers

Charles Loring Elliott (painter) American, 1812 - 1868

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Inscription

lower right: Elliot / 185[4?]

Provenance

Rufus W. Griswold [1815-1857], in 1854.[1] James C. McGuire [1812-1888], Washington;[2] bequest September 1888 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Griswold lent the painting to an exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1854; he was an anthologist, editor, poet, and critic.

[2] McGuire, a major collector, was one of the original trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Griswold, Rufus W.
McGuire, James C.

Exhibition History

1854: National Academy of Design, New York, 1854, no. 299.

1857: First Annual Exhibition of the Washington Art Association, 1857, no. 79.

1976: The Realist Tradition in American Painting, South Texas Artmobile, August 1976 - May 1977.

1979: Romantic America: The Middle Decades of the 19th Century, The Tampa Museum, 15 September - 26 November 1979, no. 46, repro.

Bibliography

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 79-80, repro.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 296, repro.