1895.699: Chateau on Lake Thun, Switzerland

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1895.699

People

Thomas Addison Richards, American (London, England 1820 - 1900 Annapolis, MD)

Title

Chateau on Lake Thun, Switzerland

Other Titles

Former Title: Castle on Lake Thun

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1872

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231905

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

30.5 x 50.5 cm (12 x 19 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: T. A. Richards

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Acquired by William Hayes Fogg, New York; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg

Accession Year

1895

Object Number

1895.699

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Maria Naylor, ed., The National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1861-1900 (New York, NY, 1973), vol. 2, p. 786
• Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, pp. 272, 275, fig. 7
• 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), pp. 415-16, cat. 377, ill.

Exhibition History

• National Academy of Design Annual, National Academy of Design, 01/01/1872 - 12/31/1872

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