Young Girl in a Rocky Field | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1942.247
People: William Hart, American (Paisley, Scotland 1823 - 1894 Mt Vernon, NY)
Title: Young Girl in a Rocky Field
Other Titles: Former Title: Landscape with Little Girl Sitting on a Rock in a Pasture
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1860s
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230440

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35.6 x 61 cm (14 x 24 in.)
framed: 41.3 x 68 x 5.1 cm (16 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Unknown seller; to [Pinakos, Inc. (Rudolf Heinemann), New York, and Knoedler & Co., New York] sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year: 1942
Object Number: 1942.247
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 251, cat. 201, ill.
Gary L. Stiles, William Hart: Catalogue Raisonné and Artistic Biography, Hart Editions (New York, 2020), no. CR 471, repr.

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