Autumn Scattering Leaves

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JOHN LA FARGE (1835-1910)
Autumn Scattering Leaves
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper laid down on paperboard
image, 18 ¾ x 13 ¾ in. (47.6 x 34.9 cm.);
sheet, 20 ¼ x 15 ½ in. (51.4 x 39.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1900.

Provenance

Mrs. Bayard Thayer, Boston, Massachusetts.
By descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Yonkers, New York, The Hudson River Museum of Westchester; Utica, New York, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, John La Farge: Watercolors and Drawings, October 28, 1990-August 11, 1991, pp. 103, 131, no. 138, illustrated.
Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Stanford White and Their Circle, September 24, 1998-January 4, 1999, pp. 73, 93, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

According to James L. Yarnall, the present work “is a study for a stained-glass window that was originally installed in the country home of William C. Whitney in Old Westbury, Long Island. A companion window of Spring depicting a semi-nude female figure was also commissioned for the house. The two windows were installed in the entry way to the house in 1902.” (unpublished letter, 1990)

The Spring stained glass window is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, and the Autumn window is installed in the French Cultural Embassy in New York (previously the Harry Payne Whitney Residence). An earlier design for the window is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, though Whitney ultimately chose the present design.

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