Eighteenth-Century Colonist Preaching to Indians, 1852

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 31.12 × 21.59 cm (12 1/4 × 8 1/2 in.)

sheet: 32.7 × 43.34 cm (12 7/8 × 17 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.275

Artists / Makers

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (artist) American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in pen and brown ink: E. Leutze / Christmas 1852

Provenance

Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (son of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1917; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Leutze, E.H.C.

Exhibition History

1972: The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973

1976: The Hudson on the Rhine, Kuntsmuseum Dusseldorf; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 1976

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 34, no. 240.