Preview
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
With frame: 20 15/16 × 24 13/16 × 2 1/2 in. (53 × 63 × 6.4 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of David P. Harris ('46), 2020
Accession Number
2020.393
Provenance
Purchased by David P. Harris from "MORONY GALLERIES / 3208 "O" STREET, N.C. / WASHINGTON 7, D. C." in Washington D.C. in 1963.
Condition
Abrasions are visible across the bottom of the painting. On the back, a sticker that overlays the frame and the canvas has been broken as if canvas was once removed. Some clean, silver, potentially newer nails are visible alongside more rusted nails, holding in the canvas.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Lower left corner of painting: According to Harris, it reads ""Munch," with a date in the nineteenth century"; visible to us were possibly remains of a signature with an "E"; gap, then "A" or "H"; gap, then "nch"; a possible date below could begin with "19" or "18"
Back of canvas: "GEO ROWNEY & Cọ / 51&52 Rathbone Place / LONDON"
Matching stamp recorded by the National Portrait Gallery with more information on George Rowney & Co available on their website, British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - RO.
Sticker on back of canvas: "Class 1"; lower left corner missing, but what remains possibly reads "69"
Sticker on back of frame: "FROST & REED" below which is the coat of arms of the United Kingdom; left of coat of arms, "BRISTOL, / CLARE STREET, / PICTURE FRAME MAKER[S]" with other text no longer readable; right of coat of arms, "CL[IF]FTON[,] / 47 Q[UE]EN'S ROAD," with other text no longer readable.
Description
The lower third of the painting follows a bridge extending over water, at the far end of which are two figures, turned toward one another. Rendered in greens and browns on either side of the scene are the largest trees (particularly the one on the right), therefore appearing the closest. A hazier, gray impression of trees is visible in the background, along with two buildings to the left, ensconced in the greenery. From this horizon emerge cumulus clouds followed by blue sky.