Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island
William Michael Harnett
Sporting Still Life
Auction Closed
January 24, 06:08 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island
William Michael Harnett
1848 - 1892
Sporting Still Life
signed Harnett and dated Munchen 1883. (lower right)
oil on panel
8 by 10 ¾ in.
20.3 by 27.3 cm.
Executed in 1883.
(with) Victor D. Spark, New York
Paul and Helen Zuckerman, Detroit (acquired from the above in 1959)
Acquired from the above in May 2012 by the present owner
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe l'Oeil Tradition In American Painting, 1970, no. 42, pp. 78-79, illustrated
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Still Lifes of the Nineteenth Century, 1971, no. 20, p. 17, illustrated
Alfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters, 1870-1900, Berkeley, 1969, no. 84, pp. 67 and 175