Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus (Copy after Rembrandt)
John La Farge, American, 1835 - 1910
after Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
1856
Opaque and transparent watercolor and gouache or ink wash over graphite and possibly red chalk on thick wove paper
Sheet: 12 15/16 × 17 5/16 in. (32.8 × 44 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor George Breed Zug
W.921.40
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Exhibition History
John La Farge: Watercolors and Drawings, The Hudson River Musem, Yonkers, New York, October 28, 1990-January 6, 1991; Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, New York, February 9-April 21, 1991; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, July 20-August 11, 1991.
Publication History
James l. Yarnall, The American Art Journal, Adventures of a Young Antiquarian: John La Farge's Wanderjahr in Europe, 1856-1857, Vol. III, Numbers 1 and 2, New York: Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, 1999, 144 pp., fig. 12, ill. p. 114.
James L. Yarnall, John La Farge: Watercolors and Drawings, New York: The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, 1990, p. 74.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 28, ill. p. 239.
James L. Yarnall, John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study, Surrey, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2012, ill. p. 31, figure 23.
Provenance
With Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1907; Estate of John La Farge, New York, 1910-1911; [American Art Galleries, New York, March 29-31, 1911, lot 642]; [August F. Jaccaci, New York, 1911]; George Breed Zug (1867-1943, Dartmouth Professor of Art History, 1913-1932); given to present collection, 1921.
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