Painting
- Title:
- View on Long Pond
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1969.024
- Creator:
- Gerlach, Anthony (1837-1883)
- Place of Origin:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date:
- 1865
- Description:
- Landscape painting, View on Long Pond, by Anthony Gerlach (1837-1883), 1865. Oil on canvas. Depicts view of Long Pond Near Center Harbor, NH. Body of water center foreground surrounded by bushes, rocks and trees left foreground, sloping wooded hills in background. Tones of brown and grey, with yellow-grey sky and water. Signed lower left "Anthony Gerlach / 1865" in red. Written in ink on back: "Long Pond near Centre Harbor in New Hampshire Painted by Anthony Gerlach Philadelphia". Dark stained wood frame with carved floral border and gilded liner.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-30 W-45 D-1 inches
- Provenance:
- Owned by the grandfather of the donor, Leonhardt Kausz (1830-1901), who owned an artist's supply business in Philadelphia called Kausz and Jenetski and who came here from Alsace in 1850. Donor suggests that his grandfather perhaps received the painting as credit for art supply purchases made in the store by the artist. Donor remembers painting hanging in his grandfather's parlor.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Adolph C. Stahl
- Subjects:
- Center Harbor, Long Pond, Landscape paintings, Lake Kanasatka
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