Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and dated (lower right): A. Achenbach / 1853
Provenance John Wolfe, New York (until 1863; his sale, Henry H. Leeds & Co., New York, December 22–23, 1863, no. 70, as "View on the Coast of Sicily, Storm Clearing Off," sold for $3000, to Sanford); James T. Sanford, New York (from 1863); Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York (by 1863–until d. 1887)
Exhibition History "Romantic Art, 1750–1900," October 1965–October 1966, no. 1.
Cambridge. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "To Look on Nature: European and American Landscape, 1800–1874," April 6–May 7, 1972, unnumbered cat.
Providence, R.I. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. "To Look on Nature: European and American Landscape, 1800–1874," February 3–March 5, 1972, unnumbered cat.
New York Cultural Center. "Grand Reserves," October 24–December 8, 1974, no. 103.
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. "Andreas und Oswald Achenbach: 'Das A und O der Lanschaft'," November 29, 1997–February 1, 1998, unnumbered cat.
Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. "Andreas und Oswald Achenbach: 'Das A und O der Lanschaft'," February 25–April 19, 1998, unnumbered cat.
References "Gallery of the Düsseldorf Artists." Bulletin of the American Art-Union 2 (June 1849), p. 12.The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church: Vision of an American Era . New York, 1966, p. 35, fig. 61 (detail).To Look on Nature: European and American Landscape, 1800–1874 . Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, 1972, pp. 50–51, 55, pl. 11.Andreas und Oswald Achenbach: 'Das A und O der Lanschaft' . Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Cologne, 1997, pp. 84–85, 213, unnumbered, ill. (color).Apollo 147 (March 1998), pp. 50, 54, n. 8.
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