A Country Seat, (painting).

A Country Seat, (painting).

McComb, Mary C. P., painter.

A Country Seat, (painting).

27 1/8 x 40 in. (68.9 x 101.6 cm).

(On back, visible before new canvas lining:) Mary C. P. McComb / Del et pinxit 1809 signed

A landscape with a lake in the background and a large square fieldstone house in the center. A male figure carrying a farm tool over his shoulder walks on a circular drive leading to the house, while a female figure walks on the opposite side of the circular drive. Two farm animals are seated in the center of the circular drive.

Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- House

Landscape -- Lake

Animal -- Cattle

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1855.47

American Academy of Fine Arts, New York, New York Sale (Feb. 22, 1842)

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 554.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 328.

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