Lot 11
  • 11

Alfred Thompson Bricher 1837 - 1908

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfred Thompson Bricher
  • Indian Summer, Massachusetts
  • signed A.T. Bricher and dated 1864 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 22 by 36 inches
  • (55.9 by 91.4 cm)

Provenance

T. Wigglesworth, by 1869 (probably) 
Sale: Adam A. Weschler & Son, Washington, D.C., May 22-23, 1971
Sara Greene, by 1973 (sold: Sotheby's New York, October 27, 1978, lot 9, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Athenaeum, 1869 (probably)
Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Springfield, Massachusetts, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Alfred Thompson Bricher, September 1973-January 1974, no. 5, p. 40, illustrated p. 41

Condition

This painting is in fairly good condition. Lined. There are scattered dots and dashes of inpainting mostly visible in the dark trees at the right and left, and in the lower center register. There are a few minor dots and dashes of inpainting in the sky.
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Catalogue Note

According to Bricher scholar Jeffrey Brown, "This may be the Indian Summer which T. Wigglesworth lent to the Boston Athenaeum exhibition in 1869 after Bricher had left Boston for New York (Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1973, p. 40).