Lot Essay
According to Professor Ackerman, this picture is datable to circa 1880.
The present work is an oil sketch for the previously untraced picture of circa 1874-7, sold in these Rooms, 26 June 1987, lot 74. There is a further oil sketch in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (Ackerman, op. cit.), as well as a charcoal study of the same subject which was also sold in these Rooms, 10 February 1995, lot 140.
See note to lot 42
The present work is an oil sketch for the previously untraced picture of circa 1874-7, sold in these Rooms, 26 June 1987, lot 74. There is a further oil sketch in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (Ackerman, op. cit.), as well as a charcoal study of the same subject which was also sold in these Rooms, 10 February 1995, lot 140.
See note to lot 42