Currently not on view
Pastoral Scene,
1857
George Inness, 1825–1894; born Newburgh, NY; died Bridge of Allan, Scotland
y1947-215
More About This Object
Information
Title
Pastoral Scene
Dates
1857
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 x 21 cm. (6 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
frame: 35.1 × 40.5 × 4.7 cm (13 13/16 × 15 15/16 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1947-215
Signatures
Signed and dated on back, upsidedown in relation to painting: G. Inness 1857.
Reference Numbers
Quick 111
Culture
Type
Subject
George H. Smillie, New York, NY; Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Westport, CT, to 1947
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 6, no. 1/2 (1947): p. 7.
- D. D. Egbert, "Italian pastoral scene by Inness", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 7, no. 1 (1948): p. 2-3., p. 2-3; cover illustration
- LeRoy Ireland, The works of George Inness: an illustrated catalgue raisonné, (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1965)., fig. 1390, 356-7, illus.
- Barbara T. Ross, "Nineteenth-century American landscape paintings: nine recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 1 (1985): p. 4-13., p. 13, fig. 18
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 203, cat. no. 50; p. 205 (illus.); p. 346, checklist no. 957
