Sketch of a Cottage Yard

Provenance

Acquired at auction in Boston c. 1878 by William S. Eaton, Boston; by descent to his son, Francis S. Eaton, Boston.[1] William Francis Cochran Ewing, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1946;[2] purchased 5 June 1950 by Oliver B. James, Oyster Bay, New York and Phoenix; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[3] purchased 24 April 1961 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Early provenance according to correspondence 3 May 1961 from M. Knoedler & Co. to Corcoran Gallery of Art. See NGA curatorial file. [2] This painting is stock number A3406 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 9, A2681-A4782, 1943 November-1952 February, page 120 of the stockbook. [3] Stock number A7978 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 11, A7178-A9437, 1959 February-1970 December, page 119 of the stockbook.

Sketch of a Cottage Yard

Homer, Winslow

c. 1876

Accession Number

2014.136.83

Medium

oil on academy board

Dimensions

overall: 26 × 36.8 cm (10 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.) | framed: 37.1 × 49.5 × 5.1 cm (14 5/8 × 19 1/2 × 2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund and through the gift of Orme Wilson)