19th-Century European Art

19th-Century European Art

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Alfred Wahlberg

A Stormy Sunset

Auction Closed

February 5, 09:31 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alfred Wahlberg 

Swedish 1834 - 1906

A Stormy Sunset


signed lower left: Alfred Wahlberg 77.

oil on canvas 

canvas: 20 ½ by 31 ½ in.; 52.1 by 80 cm

framed: 26 by 37 in.; 66 by 94 cm

John Taylor Johnston (1820‑1893), New York;

Sale, Uppsala Auctions, Sweden, 13-16 June 2023, lot 328 (as Fiskare vid stranden i dramatisk solnedgång);

Where acquired by the present owner.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Collection of Paintings, in the West and East Galleries, Handbook No. 6., New York 1880, p. 7, no. 108.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Collection of Paintings, in the West and East Galleries, April-October 1880, no. 108 (as A Stormy Sunset)

The present work featured in the personal collection of American business leader and art philanthropist John Taylor Johnston (1820‑1893), one of the founders of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870 and first president of the museum.