Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore

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Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore
signed 'S.R. Gifford' (lower left)-- bears estate stamp (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on paper mounted on canvas
8 x 13½ in. (20.3 x 34.3 cm.)

Lot Essay

The present work is a highly finished study for a larger painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (I. Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, p. 293)

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