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Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)
Lot 34 Distinguished American Art from a New York Private Collection

Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)

Sunset on Greenwood Lake

Closed22 November 2016

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Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)
Sunset on Greenwood Lake
signed and dated 'J.F. Cropsey 1877' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 ½ x 24 ½ in. (36.8 x 62.2 cm.)
Painted in 1877.

(Probably) Parke-Bernet, New York, 15-17 December 1938, lot 67.
John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1944.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., acquired from the above, 1944.
John Jacob Astor III, New York, acquired from the above, 1944.
Wildenstein & Co., New York, and Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1986.
Altman/Burke Fine Art, Inc., New York, by 1989.
Edward Wilson, Fund for Fine Arts, Inc., Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, 1998.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999.

Specialist note

This painting will be included in a forthcoming volume of the catalogue raisonné of the works of Jasper Francis Cropsey by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

While this work has been historically identified as Lake George, the composition more closely resembles Cropsey's paintings of Greenwood Lake in Orange County, New York.