Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
Cardinal's Coach on the Campagna
bears estate stamp (on reverse)
oil on canvas laid down on panel
3½ x 7¼ in. (8.9 x 18.4 cm.)
Provenance
Alexander Gallery, New York.
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York.
Literature
I. Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, pl. 24
Exhibited
New York, Alexander Gallery Sanford R. Gifford, March 20-April 19, 1986, no. 33, illustrated
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880, June 21-September 20, 1998, no. 61 (This exhibition also traveled to Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, The Sterling and Francine Clark Institute)
Lot Essay
Executed in October 1868.
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