View of the Tiber near Perugia

1872-1874

George Inness

Artist, American, 1825 - 1894

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G45

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 98 x 161.5 cm (38 9/16 x 63 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.16.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Darius Ogden Mills [1825-1910], Millbrae, California, c. 1874 or 1875;[1] his children, Ogden Mills [1856-1929] and Elizabeth Mills [Mrs. Whitelaw Reid], Millbrae, California, c. 1910-1943; Mills Estate, 1943-1947; the daughter of Ogden Mills, Gladys Mills Phipps [Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, 1883-1970]; her son, Ogden Phipps [b. 1908], New York; consigned November 1955 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold May 1956 to Huntington Hartford, New York; sold to (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); purchased 1 June 1973 by NGA.
[1] Darius Ogden Mills was a prominent financier and philanthropist. After resigning the presidency of the Bank of California in 1873, Mills made a two-year trip to Europe, and it was probably in Italy or in Paris that he purchased the painting from Inness.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • George Inness, 5 venues, shown only at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, not in catalogue (other venues: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art).

2011

  • George Inness in Italy, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2011 - 2012, unnumbered catalogue.

  • George Inness in Italy, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2011-2012, not in catalogue.

Bibliography

1964

  • Paintings from the Huntington Hartford Collection in the Gallery of Modern Art. New York, 1964: no. 15, repro.

1965

  • Ireland, LeRoy. The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné. Austin, 1965: 166-167, repro. 167.

1974

  • "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 83 (February 1974): 139, repro. 138.

1975

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 551, no. 836, color repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 181, repro.

1981

  • Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: color detail 4-5, 125, repro.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 547, no. 827, color repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 210, repro.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 357-360, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: G. Inness 1874; lower center, partially painted over: [Geo I]nness Rome 187[2?]

Wikidata ID

Q20188758

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