Nov 3, 2022 11:00 EST
American Paintings & Prints
1064
Jasper Francis Cropsey
Jasper Francis Cropsey
American, 1823-1900
View of Niagara with View of Clifton House, 1852
Signed J. F. Cropsey and dated 1852 (cr)
Oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 33 inches
Provenance:
M. Alfred Newhouse. St. Louis, MO
Capt. and Mrs. John Wickliffe Kitchell, Pana, IL, 1897
MacMurry College Collection, Jacksonville, IL, 1931
(with) Vose Galleries, Boston by 2000
(with) Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 2001
Babcock Galleries, New York, 2007
Private collection, New York
Literature:
Tracie Felker, "American Falls, Niagara", in Kevin J. Avery, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, p. 230, nn. 8, 14
"International Fine Art Fair", Antiques and The Arts Weekly, June 8, 2007, pp. 61-62, illus.
Anthony M. Speiser, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Catalogue Raisonne, Works in Oil, Volume One: 1842-1863, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, pp. 143-145, illus. p. 144, no. 236 [NCF 1198]
This lot is accompanied with a letter from Jasper Francis Cropsey dated Nov, 1, 1897 addressed to John Wickliffe Kitchell, an early owner of the work, wherein Cropsey recounts his visit to the falls in 1852, the year the painting was completed.
Sold for $163,800
Estimated at $250,000 - $450,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Jasper Francis Cropsey
American, 1823-1900
View of Niagara with View of Clifton House, 1852
Signed J. F. Cropsey and dated 1852 (cr)
Oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 33 inches
Provenance:
M. Alfred Newhouse. St. Louis, MO
Capt. and Mrs. John Wickliffe Kitchell, Pana, IL, 1897
MacMurry College Collection, Jacksonville, IL, 1931
(with) Vose Galleries, Boston by 2000
(with) Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 2001
Babcock Galleries, New York, 2007
Private collection, New York
Literature:
Tracie Felker, "American Falls, Niagara", in Kevin J. Avery, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, p. 230, nn. 8, 14
"International Fine Art Fair", Antiques and The Arts Weekly, June 8, 2007, pp. 61-62, illus.
Anthony M. Speiser, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Catalogue Raisonne, Works in Oil, Volume One: 1842-1863, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, pp. 143-145, illus. p. 144, no. 236 [NCF 1198]
This lot is accompanied with a letter from Jasper Francis Cropsey dated Nov, 1, 1897 addressed to John Wickliffe Kitchell, an early owner of the work, wherein Cropsey recounts his visit to the falls in 1852, the year the painting was completed.
In the upper left quadrant towards the center there is a "n" shaped repaired tear approximately 1 1/2 x 3 inches in size. Below that, in the foreground there is a line of inpainting running vertically for approximately 2 inches. A few small spots of inpainting can also be found at the center of the top edge. The work has been glue relined and the surface is clean and stable.
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Auction: American Paintings & Prints, Nov 3, 2022
