Martin Johnson Heade

signed M.J. Heade and dated 1876 (lower right)

15 ⅛ by 30 ⅛ in.

38.5 by 76.5 cm.

(possibly) N.K. Fairbank (acquired in 1876)

Samuel Peck, New Jersey

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 May 1966, lot 37

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, Branford, Connecticut (acquired from the above on 4 November 1966 and until circa 1980)

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York

Theodore and Eleanor Congdon, Pasadena, California (acquired from the above by 1999)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

(possibly) Chicago, Inter-State Exposition Building, Inter-State Industrial Exposition, 1876 (titled A Calm)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Martin Johnson Heade, 1969, no. 38, n.p., illustrated

Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum and Springfield, Massachusetts, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, 1977-78, no. 25, p. 58, illustrated (titled Becalmed)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, 1980, fig. 249, pp. 46, 106, 117, 225 and 232; p. 226, illustrated

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Martin Johnson Heade, 1999-2000, no. 9, pp. 17 and 190; p. 27, illustrated in color

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, 1975, no. 192, pl. 4, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 250, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Vermont, Shelburne Museum, Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum, 1976, p. 75

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 2000, no. 248, pp. 111 and 262; p. 63, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape, 2009, p. 147, illustrated (dated 1878)