Autumn Scene

Details

JERVIS MCENTEE (1828-1891)
Autumn Scene
signed with initials in monogram and dated 'JMcEntee. 1868.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 ¾ x 41 ¾ in. (60.3 x 106 cm.)
Painted in 1868.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 6 December 1984, lot 26.
(Probably) Beacon Hill Fine Art, New York.
The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan, by 2004.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.

Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, October 4, 1987-January 3, 1988, pp. 278-79, illustrated.
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Art Museum, A Wilder Image Bright: Hudson River School Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, January 31-March 28, 2004, pp. 112-13, no. 25, illustrated (as Autumn Scene).

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Lot Essay

A prominent artist of the Hudson River School, Jervis McEntee was known for his grand depictions of nature, specifically the Catskill Mountains and various locations throughout the American Northeast. The present work is a masterful example of McEntee's quintessential subject, the autumn landscape. Dated 1868, the present work may have been painted in the artist's New York studio or perhaps finished during his stay in Italy. "The familiar wooded landscape near Rondout [New York] was so indelibly inscribed upon McEntee's imagination that he could have painted it from memory and almost certainly did." (K. Sharp, Wilder Image Bright: Hudson River School Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, exhibition catalogue, Vero Beach, Florida, p. 113)

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