Lot 118
  • 118

Thomas Doughty 1793-1856

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Thomas Doughty
  • Morning Among the Hills
  • signed T. Doughty, l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 by 26 in.
  • 45.8 by 66 cm.
  • Painted circa 1829-1830

Provenance

Henry C. Carey
The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, bequethed by the above
Neil Scherer, New York
Purchased by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art; Albany Institute of History and Art, Thomas Doughty, 1793-1856:  An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting, 1973-4

Condition

Canvas is lined SURFACE: in generally good condition; relining has compressed surface, although there is still good pigment retention UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: inpainting along edges (for frame abrasion); for the most part, work is clean, but there are scattered dots and dashes of inpaint in various places
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