Brunk Auctions
Live Auction

Premier Auction - Session II

Sat, Sep 11, 2021 09:00AM EDT
Lot 974

Jasper Francis Cropsey

Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(American, 1823-1900)

Autumn Landscape with Cattle, 1879, signed lower right "J.F. Cropsey 1879", oil on canvas, 22-1/2 x 39 in.; reproduction carved gilt wood frame, 29-3/4 x 47 in., Provenance: The artist: Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts (label verso); The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, purchase, 1976; Property of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions; Note: Literature: The American Yearsÿ(Lincoln, MA: Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1976), n.p., illus.;ÿAmy Ellis, entry for Jasper Francis Cropsey,ÿAutumn on the Susquehanna, in Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,ÿAmerican Paintings before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum, vol. 1 (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1996), illus. p. 281.;Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalog Raisonn‚: Works in Oil, vol. 2 (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2013), p. 264, no. 1564Exhibited: American Embassy in Berne, Switzerland, through the Art in Embassies Program, Department of State, for Ambassador and Mrs. Donald Beyer, May 24, 2010?June 17, 2013

Condition

old canvas lining, yellowed varnish, some surface dirt, central stretcher mark; frame with some wear at corners and edges