Lot 395
  • 395

Attributed to Jacob Maentel (1763 - 1863)

Estimate
6,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Jacob Maentel (1763 - 1863)
  • Red-roofed Distillery and Out-buildings nestled in Green Hills
  • oil on fine weave canvas

  • 32 in. by 55 in.
Painted circa 1850

Condition

(scattered throughout patches on back right border, original stretcher)
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Catalogue Note

Mary Black's engaging and enlightening book, Simplicity, A Grace: Jacob Maentel in Indiana (Evansville, Indiana, 1989) presents two New Harmony, Indiana landscape paintings, now in the collection of The Working Men's Institute Library and Museum, (pp. 25-26). The manner of execution and the style of painting represented in this painting of distillery relates closely to those published examples and it relates closely to land and seascapes which appear in watercolors by Jacob Maentel (Portrait of Jonathan Jaquess of Posey, Indiana, 1841, now also in the collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, and illustrated in American Folk Portraits, Paintings, and Drawings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, ed. Beatrix T. Rumford, Boston, 1981, pp. 141-145.