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Lot 47 PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886)
Boonton Falls, New Jersey
Closed22 September 2015
Price Realised
USD 60,000
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Specialist note
Boonton Falls, New Jersey, Asher B. Durand’s first commissioned landscape, was painted at the request of Lewis P. Clover, Sr. in 1833. Clover was the proprietor of a framing and artists' supply shop in New York in the 1830s. His son, Lewis P. Clover, Jr. was Durand’s pupil.
When the present work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1833, a critic extolled, “This is an exquisite piece of nature; it is in the highest degree fresh and vivid: the foliage has obtained a particularly careful finish, and the white volume of water falls in such a manner that we would almost pronounce it cooling and refreshing to the eye.” (American Monthly Magazine, July 1, 1833, vol. I, p. 333)
When the present work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1833, a critic extolled, “This is an exquisite piece of nature; it is in the highest degree fresh and vivid: the foliage has obtained a particularly careful finish, and the white volume of water falls in such a manner that we would almost pronounce it cooling and refreshing to the eye.” (American Monthly Magazine, July 1, 1833, vol. I, p. 333)