Lot 70
  • 70

JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY | Autumn

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Jasper Francis Cropsey
  • Autumn
  • signed J. F. Cropsey and dated 1880 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 12 by 20 inches
  • (30.5 by 50.8 cm)

Provenance

Stricker Jennings, Baltimore, Maryland
Private collection, Wilmington, Delaware
Peter Davidson & Co., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1988

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is faint frame abrasion at the left and right edges, two pindots of loss near the upper edge and a 1.5 inch tear to the canvas at the upper left tacking edge. Under UV: there are two small dots of inpainting - one at the upper left corner and the other at lower left center in the water near the rocks in foreground.
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Catalogue Note

This painting will be included in the catalogue raisonnĂ© of the artist’s work to be published by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.