Late Sunset
Artist
George Inness
American, 1825–1894
Date1857
Mediumoil on pressboard
DimensionsBoard: 19.5 × 26.7 cm (7 11/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
frame: 34 × 41 cm (13 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
frame: 34 × 41 cm (13 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Sara L. Mallard
Object number2000.33
Label TextThis small painting reflects the influence of the French Barbizon School, which Inness encountered on a trip to Paris in 1853-1854. Barbizon painters championed landscape painting as a worthy pursuit in its own right—rather than as a vehicle for literary or symbolic associations. They also embraced rural subjects, a realistic style, and working outdoors. Here, Inness captures the fresh beauty and hushed calm of a sunset over a small farmstead. Such works anticipated shifting tastes in American art in the late 19th century for more expressive landscapes capturing fleeting atmospheric effects.ProvenanceGrand Central Art Galleries, New York; sold to J. Porter Brinton, Greenwich, Conn., 1952; to his wife Lillian Mallard Brinton; by bequest to her niece Sara L. Mallard, Worcester, MA
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