Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks https://www.nga.gov/artworks/59908-peaceable-kingdom
(Robert Carlen, Philadelphia); sold 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
(Robert Carlen, Philadelphia); sold 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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London and Philadelphia, 1908. 1910 Kennedy, Edward G.
Accession Number 1949.3.1276.23 Copyright Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum
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mounted on album sheet Accession ID 2015.25.4.16 Not on view Artwork Plan of Philadelphia
Rosenwald, Print Club of Philadelphia, 1930, no. 15.
While his figure paintings are better known, Renoir’s landscapes resonate with a vigor and freshness of vision central to the development of impressionism, most apparent here in his transcription of the effects of sunlight. Midday sun suffuses the panorama, its intensity heightening the artist’s palette and suppressing incidental detail to clarify the crowded scene.
[1] The painting was lent by Coe to a 1933 exhibition in Philadelphia, per an unnumbered
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. The Travelers, one of Hobbema’s largest works, is a close variant of a smaller painting of a watermill by Ruisdael now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
In the copy of the sale catalogue at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the words "Recueillie
mounted on album sheet Accession ID 2015.25.4.3 Not on view Artwork Plan of Philadelphia