Winter in the Country
c. 1858
Painter, American, 1820 - 1863
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 45.7 x 61.1 cm (18 x 24 1/16 in.)
framed: 70.2 x 85.4 x 8.6 cm (27 5/8 x 33 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1994.59.1
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Sotheby's, New York, 21 April 1977, no. 19); Mr. and Mrs. George J. Arden, New York, until 1988;[1] (Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York); sold November 1988 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1994 to NGA.
[1] Martha Young Hutson (in George Henry Durrie (1820-1863): American Winter Landscapist Renowned through Currier and Ives, Santa Barbara, California, 1977: 222) lists the painting as being in the collection of the Physicians Planning Service Corporation, of which George Arden was founder and chief executive officer. Mr. Arden died in 1983, and his wife inherited the collection.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Nineteenth Century American Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Arden, The Gallery, Morris R. Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1983, illus. 7, as New Haven Winter.
Bibliography
1977
Hutson, Martha Young. George Henry Durrie (1820-1863): American Winter Landscapist Renowned through Currier and Ives. Exh. cat. 4 venues. Santa Barbara, California, 1977: no. 180, fig. 105, as Winter in the Country, Farmyard (not shown in exh.).
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: 149-151, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: DURRIE / N HAVEN
Wikidata ID
Q20188404