Italian Lake with Classical Ruins
William Louis Sonntag, American, 1822 - 1900
1858
Oil on canvas
Overall: 35 3/4 × 59 15/16 in. (90.8 × 152.3 cm)
Frame: 40 7/8 × 65 in. (103.8 × 165.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Annie B. Dore, in memory of her husband, John Clark Dore, Class of 1847
P.917.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signature missing, only the date remains at lower left: 58
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 70, The Allure of Ruins: Views of the Temple of Sibyl at Tivoli across Time, Francie Middleton, Class of 2012, Homma Family Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 19-July 8, 2012.
American 19th Century Paintings, Beaumont-May, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4, 1974-October 31, 1974.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 26, 1991-June 1, 1993.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19, 2003.
The Arcadian Landscape: 19th Century American Painters in Italy, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, November 3-December 3, 1972.
The Dartmouth Collection: 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-November 6, 1982.
Twilight of Acadia: American Landscape Painters in Rome, 1830-1880, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, April 3-July 5, 1987.
Publication History
John W. Coffey, Twilight of Arcadia: American Landscape Painters in Rome, 1830-1880, Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1987, no.22, ill. p.73.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Paintings in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Antiques, November 1985, ill. p. 1023.
Nancy Dustin and Wall Moore, William Louis Sonntag: Artist of the Ideal, 1822-1900, Los Angeles, California: American Art Review Press, Goldfield Galleries, 1980, no.407, ill. p. 22.
Barbara Novak, "Americans in Italy: Arcady Revisited", Art in America, January-Febraury 1973.
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 52, no. 230.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 47, no. 26.
Francie Middleton, A Space for Dialogue 70, The Allure of Ruins: Views of the Temple of Sibyl at Tivoli across Time, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. title page.
Provenance
Mrs. Annie B. Dore [in memory of her husband, John Clark Dore, Class of 1847 (1822-1900)], given to present collection, 1917.
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