- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.141
- People
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John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)
- Title
- Early Spring: Sun Struggling Through Clouds (Landscape)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1864
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230414
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
- 41 x 55.9 cm (16 1/8 x 22 in.)
framed: 52.1 x 66.4 x 4.5 cm (20 1/2 x 26 1/8 x 1 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: l.r.: Mean middle distance plain/tall tree towards foreground/and green grass all over/and, in foreground with a /slight [slope] in foreground/ [beyond] each green/by value/[...]
- label: Label on back: Prepared [pane]l/Winsor and Newton/Artists' Colourmen/to Her Majesty/and to/His Royal Highness Prince Albert/38, Rathbone Place, London.
- Provenance
- Purchased at Leonard's Gallery Auction, Boston, MA, 1879; consigned to Doll and Richards, Boston, 1881; purchased by private owner at Leonard's Gallery, Boston, 1882. Private owner paid $110 at Leonard's Gallery, per annotated catalogue now at MFA; his/her sale to Scott and Fowles, New York, 1942; their sale to Knoedler and Co., New York; their sale to Martin Birnbaum, New York; his sale to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, March, 1942; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.141
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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James L. Yarnall, John La Farge in Paradise: The Painter and his Muse, exh. cat., William Vareika Fine Arts (Newport, RI, 1995), pp. 52-53, reproduced in color p. 52
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 185-86, cat. no. 143, reproduced in b&w, p. 186
- Exhibition History
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[John La Farge exhibition], Leonard's Gallery, Boston, 01/01/1879 - 12/31/1879
For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
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