Object: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: Width 21 ” x Height 16″
Maker: Attributed to the workshop of Victor De Grailly (1804-1889)
Location: Unknown
Date: circa 1845
Commentary: The French artist Victor De Grailly painted many landscapes of American scenes in the style of the Hudson River School and often produced multiple versions of the most popular views. It is not known with certainty whether De Grailly ever visited the United States but it is unquestionable that the great majority of his paintings of American subjects were drawn directly from print sources. The Washington family vault at Mount Vernon was replaced in 1837 by a tomb that included the formal entryway depicted in this painting. Several prints were made of the scene, most notably by S. H. Brooke sometime after 1838 and N. Currier in 1840. This painting and other examples such as virtually identical paintings by De Grailly in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Fruitland Museum at Harvard were derived from one of these prints.
De Grailly was born in Paris and studied with Jean Victor Bertin.
Condition: The painting survives in good with only relatively minor in-painting. The canvas has been lined. The frame is period but not original to the painting.
Price: Sold
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