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Sketch of a Cottage Yard
Winslow Homerc. 1876
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Sketch of a Cottage Yard
- Creator: Winslow Homer
- Date Created: c. 1876
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 26 × 36.8 cm (10 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.) framed: 37.1 × 49.5 × 5.1 cm (14 5/8 × 19 1/2 × 2 in.)
- Provenance: Acquired at auction in Boston c. 1878 by William S. Eaton, Boston; by descent to his son, Francis S. Eaton, Boston.[1] William Francis Cochran Ewing, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1946;[2] purchased 5 June 1950 by Oliver B. James, Oyster Bay, New York and Phoenix; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[3] purchased 24 April 1961 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Early provenance according to correspondence 3 May 1961 from M. Knoedler & Co. to Corcoran Gallery of Art. See NGA curatorial file. [2] This painting is stock number A3406 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 9, A2681-A4782, 1943 November-1952 February, page 120 of the stockbook. [3] Stock number A7978 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 11, A7178-A9437, 1959 February-1970 December, page 119 of the stockbook.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on academy board
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