Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1979.020.13.4
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1800-1850
- Description:
- Landscape painting, untitled, unknown artist, 1800-1850. Oil on paper. One of four views of the English gardens in Munich, Germany. Trees in right and left foreground. Stone bridge with arches in the middle ground. One red carriage with two figures ride across the bridge in the center. A figure on a horse rides behind the carriage and two figures walk to the right. One figure is exiting on the left side of the bridge. Blue sky with red clouds at the horizon. Unsigned.Gilded gesso over molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.5 W-11.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Originally owned by Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, who bequeathed her collection of family portraits to her cousin Joseph Burbeen Walker (1822-1913) in 1852. The portraits then passed to his son Charles R. Walker (1852-1922), and to his grandson Sheafe Walker, the donor.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Sheafe Walker
- People:
- Count Rumford
- Subjects:
- Bridges, Carriages, Count Rumford Monument, Gardens, Munich, Germany
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