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    		• Durand, Asher B.,
     
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    		• Landscape -- Imaginary
     
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    		• Landscape -- River
     
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    		• Landscape -- Mountain
     
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    		• Architecture exterior -- Castle
     
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    		• Animal -- Goat
     
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    		• Literature -- Bryant
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    Landscape -- Scene from "Thanatopsis," (painting).
    Artist: 
    Durand, Asher B., 1796-1886, painter.
    Title: 
    Landscape -- Scene from "Thanatopsis," (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Landscape, Scene from "Thanatopsis," (painting).
    Dates: 
    1850.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    39 1/2 x 61 in. (100.3 x 154.9 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) A. B. Durand /1850 signed
    Description: 
    The landscape was inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis" (1811, 1817), and shows a winding river on the left and a castle on the right with jagged mountains behind it. In the foreground there is a goat grazing beside a tree.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Imaginary
    Landscape -- River
    Landscape -- Mountain
    Architecture exterior -- Castle
    Animal -- Goat
    Literature -- Bryant -- Thanatopsis
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 11.156
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of American Art Union, New York, New York 1850.
    Moore, Frank, New York, New York 1850.
    Gardner, B. F., Baltimore, Maryland 1862.
    Avery, Samuel P.,
    Leeds' Art Gallery, New York, New York Sale (Dec. 28, 1866), no. 47a
    Morgan, J. Pierpont, New York, New York by 1894-1911.
    Remarks: 
    The painting was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1850, no. 138; and at the American Art Union in 1850, no. 198.
    References: 
    Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum,. Vol. I, 1965, pg. 211-112.
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
    Exh. Cat., William Cullen Bryant & the Hudson River School of Landscape Ptg., Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, N.Y.,1981.
    Lawall, David B., "Asher B. Durand: a documentary catalogue of the narrative and landscape paintings," New York: Garland Pub., 1978, no. 142.
    "A. B. Durand 1796-1886," Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1971, no. 60.
    Antiques (Nov. 1979): pg. 1123.
    Madeleine Fidell Beaufort, 1975.
    Samuel P. Avery Coll. Sales, 1864/80.
    Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 419.
    Czestochowski, Joseph S., "The American landscape tradition: a study and gallery of paintings," New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982, fig. 64.
    Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape," New York: Brooklyn Museum in association with D. Giles Limited, London, 2007, pg. 163.
    "The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador," Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Asociados S.A. in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008, pg. 175.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Antiques (Nov. 1979): pg. 1123.
    Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 421.
    Lawall, David B., "Asher B. Durand: a documentary catalogue of the narrative and landscape paintings," New York: Garland Pub., 1978, fig. 71.
    "A. B. Durand 1796-1886," Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1971, pg. 96.
    Czestochowski, Joseph S., "The American landscape tradition: a study and gallery of paintings," New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982, pg. 65.
    Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape," New York: Brooklyn Museum in association with D. Giles Limited, London, 2007, pl. 57.
    "The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador," Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Asociados S.A. in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008, pg. 112.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 36120179
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