A landscape painting depicts a cluster of buildings and a line of trees at the base of two large mountains.
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A landscape painting depicts two large mountains, their bases meeting in the center of the image. The sky above the mountains is bright blue, with a few small clouds. At the base of the mountains, there are several white and red-brown buildings, clustered at the left-hand side. There is a line of trees beginning at the buildings and extending across the base of the mountains. The bottom half of the frame consists of a bright green field, which tapers off into white space.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.109
People
Frederic Edwin Church, American (Hartford, CT 1826 - 1900 New York, NY)
Title
View of Wimmis, Valley of the Simmental, Switzerland
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1868
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/5240

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
32.4 x 50.5 cm (12 3/4 x 19 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's daughter Isabel Charlotte Church; her daughter, Louise Dawson Black (Mrs. John W. Gillette, Jr.); her son the Rev. Louis Church Gillette, Birmingham, MI; with Robert P. Weimann Gallery, Ansonia, CT, 1973; Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., 1973; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.109
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Carol Troyen, A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, exh. cat., The Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, NY, 1977), pp. 32-33, ill.
  • 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. 62-63, cat. 34, ill. p. 62

Exhibition History

  • A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, 09/30/1977 - 11/06/1977; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, 11/22/1977 - 01/08/1978

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project
  • Collection Highlights

Verification Level

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