Collection Highlights
Kast
1675-1690
1941.914
Walnut, walnut veneer, elm, oak, ebony
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Castle Garden, New York City
Title
Castle Garden, New York City
Date
1859
Medium
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions
Overall: 15 1/8 x 24 1/4 in. ( 38.4 x 61.6 cm )
Credit Line
Purchase, Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund
Object Number
1972.13
Gallery Label
The composition is identical with Cropsey's earlier study of the same subject painted in 1851 in the Society's collection. The main difference between the two is that the 1859 version is a moonlight scene. This later rendering is quite likely the one sold to the lithographer E. Gambert on July 28, 1859, while Cropsey was in London. The artist was then in the process of producing paintings 15 x 24 inches in size to be lithographed by Gambert.
Bibliography
Talbot, William Silas. Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900, A dissertation in the Department of Fine Arts submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of New York University, June 1972, p. 318.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 233.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
