Landscape in the Harz Mountains, 1854

  • Thomas Worthington Whittredge, American, 1820-1910

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 27 × 35 3/4 inches (68.6 × 90.8 cm)
  • 38 × 46 3/4 × 4 3/8 inches (96.5 × 118.7 × 11.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund

45.468

Signed and dated, lower left center: T. W. Whitridge | 1854

1853, commissioned by Thomas Buchanan Read (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA). 1854-ca. 1857, James L. Claghorn (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). ca. 1857, Paul Weber (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt

William M. Vanderbilt. 1945-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Worthington Whittredge Retrospective. Exh. cat., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Utica, NY, 1969, p. 29, no. 6 (ill.). Bulletin of the DIA 55, 4 (1977): pp. 199-208 (ill.). [as ca. 1853]

Thomas Worthington Whittredge, Landscape in the Harz Mountains, 1854, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 45.468.