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A Landscape after Sunset
Washington Allstonc. 1819
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: A Landscape after Sunset
- Creator: Washington Allston
- Date Created: c. 1819
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 45.4 × 64.14 cm (17 7/8 × 25 1/4 in.) framed: 60.01 × 78.11 × 6.99 cm (23 5/8 × 30 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Purchased February 1820 from the artist by Charles Russell Codman [1784-1852], Boston;[1] by descent to his son, James McMaster Codman [1831-1917], Boston; by inheritance to his daughter, Cora Codman Wolcott, Brookline; (her estate sale, Louis Joseph, Inc., Auctioneers, Boston, 13 May 1954, no. 492); unknown buyer; purchased by (Eunice Chambers, Hartsville, South Carolina); purchased 1957 by Dr. Irving Levitt, Detroit;[2] purchased December 1962 by (Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York); sold 1963 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Codman's account book records the purchase: "Feb 1820/ W. Allston for a Picture 150" (Papers of Charles Russell Codman, in the Codman Family Papers, MS001.08, Historic New England, Boston). For this information and additional details about the descent of the painting in Codman's family, see the e-mail of 4 October 2006 from Richard Nylander, Senior Curator at Historic New England, Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Jenny Carson of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in NGA curatorial files. [2] See correspondence between Chambers and Levitt, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, collection 451, box 1, folder 1 [papers of Eunice Chambers], The Winterthur Library, Delaware (copies in NGA curatorial files).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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