Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, 1823–1900) The Pond

Literature

Nancy Hall-Duncan, A Man for All Seasons: Jasper Francis Cropsey, an exhibition catalogue, The Bruce Museum Greenwich, Connecticut, 1988, plate 16 (the other version, illustrated).
Anthony M. Speiser and Kenneth Maddox, Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné, Works in Oil, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, 2013, Volume III, NCF 362, cat. no. 2195, p. 152 (illustrated).

Note

The present work closely related to Summer Landscape, also referred to as Fishing on the River Boula when it was exhibited at the Bruce Museum. The two paintings are almost identical, aside from the presence of children in Summer Landscape, who have been replaced by ducks in the foreground of the present composition.

Provenance

Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Acquired directly from the above.

Private Collection, Pennsylvania.