02-18-200702-18-2007
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2349Boston
February 18, 2007 11:00 AMCalender
583

After Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, 1823-1900) Hudson Valley Landscape.

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$1,763$1,500
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2349Location: BostonDate / Time: February 18, 2007 11:00AM

Description:

After Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, 1823-1900)

Hudson Valley Landscape. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, c. 1860, 14 x 20 in., in a gilt gesso frame. Condition: Scattered retouch, relined.

Provenance: Mrs. Ray (Marie Bennet),Warwick, New York.

Literature: See Folk Painters of America, by Robert Bishop (Dutton & Co., New York, 1979),pp. 98-99, for similar examples. The painting is after an engraving of J.F. Cropsey's American Harvesting the engraving done by James Smillie, published by the American Art Union in 1851.
Estimate $600-800

Keywords

Francis Cropsey, Warwick, Marie Bennet, Ray, Robert Bishop, Dutton & Co., American Art Union, James Smillie