Thomas Cole

signed Cole and dated 1829 (lower center); signed Cole and dated 1828 (on the reverse)

24 ⅝ by 34 ¾ in.

62.5 by 88.3 cm.

Stephen Van Rensselaer, New York (commissioned directly from the artist in 1828-29) 

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above) 

Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in 1986) 

Morton and Norma Lee Funger, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above in 1988) 

Christie’s, New York, 18 January 2024, lot 205 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, National Academy of Design, The Fourth Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, 1829, no. 13

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Views and Visions: American Landscape before 1830, 1986-87, pl. 136, pp. 183 and 245; p. 185, illustrated in color

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Summits II: Outstanding American Paintings 1828-1985, 1987, no. 1, n.p., illustrated in color

Thomas Cole, "List of Pictures Painted by Me," Thomas Cole Papers, New York State Library

"The Fourth Annual Exhibition of the National Academy," New-York Mirror, vol. VI, no. 45, 16 May 1829, p. 354

Ellwood C. Parry III, The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination, Newark, 1988, pp. 40 and 93

Exh. Cat., Albany Institute of History & Art, Thomas Cole: Drawn to Nature, Albany, 1993, p. 63

Exh. Cat., Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany Institute of History and Art: 200 Years of Collecting, 1998, p. 82

Michelle A. Erhardt and Elizabeth Broun, The Norma Lee and Martin Funger Art Collection, Lunenberg, Vermont, 1999, p. 10; n.p., illustrated in color; illustrated in color on the back cover

Exh. Cat., Brescia, Italy, Museo di Santa Giulia, America!: Storie di pittura dal Nuovo Mondo, 2007-08, p. 73

Daniel I. Spanagel, Dewitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York, Baltimore, 2014, p. 248 note 9

Exh. Cat., Catskill, New York, Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Yonkers, New York, Hudson River Museum, Thomas Cole's Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek, 2019-20, figs. 2.7 and 3.10, n.p., illustrated in color; pp. 54-56, 60-62, 67, 118 and 145; figs. 3.11-12 and 4.18, pp. 57-58 and 82, illustrated in color (detail)