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Idle Fancies, (painting). Artist:  Loop, Henry Augustus, 1831-1895, painter. Title:  Idle Fancies, (painting). Dates:  1874. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  34 1/2 x 27 in. ( 87.6 x 68.6 cm). Description:  Italian landscape with the sun setting on the horizon in the background, and a young peasant woman seated by a fountain in the foreground. She has left her water pitcher to fill under the fountain, but the water overflows the pitcher as she gazes away, seemingly lost in her thoughts. Subject:  Landscape -- Italy Landscape -- Time -- Sunset Landscape -- Time -- Evening Figure female -- Full length Ethnic -- Italian Occupation -- Other -- Peasant State of Being -- Mood -- Meditation Architecture -- Monument -- Fountain Object Type:  Painting Owner:  St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 1171 Main Street, St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 Provenance:  Gift of Fairbanks, Horace, References:  Coll. List (Typescript), ca. 1970. Mitchell, Mark D., "The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Handbook of the Art Collection," Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005, pg. 41. Illustration:  Image on file. Mitchell, Mark D., "The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Handbook of the Art Collection," Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005, pg. 41. 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 53970042   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 53970042 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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