Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1998.009
- Creator:
- Bricher, Alfred Thompson (1837-1908)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- New England
- Date:
- 1859
- Description:
- Landscape painting, untitled, by Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908), 1859. Oil on canvas. River foreground center flows from the background. River banks on both sides of the river. Lower left foreground two sticks lean against rocks next to a felled tree. Left middle ground has bent birch tree. Background on lake shore a gray federal-style house with outbuildings. Signed lower left: "A.T. Bricher / 1859". Modern gilded frame with interior decorative carving.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-20 W-27 inches
- Provenance:
- Painting belonged to donor's grandmother, whose father worked as a gilder in Newburyport, MA, during the late 1850s, at the time that Bricher worked there.
- Credit Line:
- Anonymous Gift
- Subjects:
- Mountains, River, Tree, Landscape paintings
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