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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 44 | $****** - ****** | WESTERN EMIGRANT TRAIN BOUND FOR CALIFORNIA ACROSS THE PLAINS, ALARMED BY APPROACH OF HOSTILE INDIANS (INDIANS ATTACKING A WAGON TRAIN) |
paintings
101.6 x 171.5 cm (40 x 67.52 in)
oil on canvas
signed E Leutze and inscribed Dusdf p.p.c. (lower right)
Horatio Dalton Newcomb, Louisville, Kentucky, by 1867
Horatio Victor Newcomb (his son, by descent)
Private collection, by 1903 (acquired from the above)
Goupil & Co., New York
Dr. and Mrs. William Edgar Derry, Dover, New Jersey (probably acquired from the above)
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1943
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bicentennial Exhibition, Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom Is the Only King, 1976
New York, IBM Gallery of Science; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery; Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art; Miami, Florida, Center for Fine Art, Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930, September 1993-November 1994, no. 29, pp. 209, 213, illustrated pl. 138, p. 212
Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi Museum of Art; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum; Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality, February-December 2000, p. 127, no. 89, illustrated p. 126
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012-18 (on loan)
Kölnische Zeitung, October 6, 1863
Catalogue of Modern Paintings in the Collection of H.D. Newcomb Esq., Louisville, Kentucky, 1867, pp. 1, 4
Moritz Blanckarts, Düsselforfer Künstler; Nekrologie aus den letzten zehn Jahren, Stuttgart, Germany, 1877, n.p.
Edward Strahan, The Art Treasures of America, vol. III, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1879, p. 63
The American Art Annual, vol. 4, 1903, p. 55
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 2 vols., Leipzig, Germany, 1948, n.p.
Raymond Louis Stehle, The Life and Works of Emanuel Leutze, unpublished typescript, Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 13
Barbara S. Groseclose, "Catalog of Known Works," Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom Is the Only King, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 106, pp. 98, 99, illustrated p. 98
signed E Leutze and inscribed Dusdf p.p.c. (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 by 67 1/2 inches
(101.6 by 171.5 cm)
Painted in 1863.
