View on the Hudson

George Harvey (American (born in England), about 1800–1878)

1836

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions31.11 x 48.58 cm (12 1/4 x 19 1/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865

Accession number47.1134

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InscriptionsReverse: View on the Hudson/by George Harvey/April 1836ProvenanceThe artist; possibly American Art Union, New York, distributed by lot to George Thompson, White Plains, New York, 1847 (no. 42, The Palisade Rocks, Hudson River); Codman family, nineteenth century; descended to Martha C. (Mrs. Maxim) Karolik, Newport, R.I.; to MFA, 1947, gift of Maxim Karolik.

Also possible that this painting was shown by the Apollo Association, the predecessor of the American Art-Union, as a painting under the same title was shown in 1838's October Exhibition, no. 65. (per Cowdrey, American Academy and American Art-Union Exhibition Record, 1953.)