Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge
Landscape in the Harz Mountains, 1854
oil on canvas
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Artist Thomas Worthington Whittredge, American, 1820-1910
Title
  • Landscape in the Harz Mountains
Date 1854
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Unframed: 27 × 35 3/4 inches (68.6 × 90.8 cm)
Framed: 38 × 46 3/4 × 4 3/8 inches (96.5 × 118.7 × 11.1 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund
Accession Number 45.468
Department American Art before 1950
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed Signed and dated, lower left center: T. W. Whitridge | 1854
Provenance
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)
Published References
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]